“The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No creature but human has practiced such a meaningless cause as looking for the meaning of life. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Hello, Rax.” Galene. On dinner duty. He sighed. He hated “fairness.” What was wrong with a dictatorship?” — Nick Thacker Copy Share Image
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor -… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
“Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well,… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The problem of ISIS is not recent. Ever since the Second World War, people in this region have been, and are today,… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.” — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image