I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Finally, my watchers had to fess up. In embarrassed and genuinely polite tones, they said they had no other choice but to… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
Dictatorships can exist with free markets - not that China is really a free market - especially in poor countries where the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone,… — Sharif Abdel Kouddous Copy Share Image
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
You look at something like Russia, or you look at something like China, where you actually allow free markets to go in.… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
“We're living in a perverted and twisted smokescreen of democracy that's nothing short of dictatorship, where the unelected actually rule. And behind… — Sibel Hodge Copy Share Image
“The ability of a free and independent press to hold political leaders accountable is what makes open government possible—it is the heartbeat… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use… — Susan Lindauer Copy Share Image
And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes… — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
![“Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation…” quote by Gianfranco Fini](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/714/gianfranco-fini-34906_causes_resistants-were-on-the-right-side-sal-re_631180.jpg)
![“I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.” quote by George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f25/george-w-bush-64_agree_i-told-all-four-congressional-leaders-th_2376138.jpg)
