Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
“It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Controlling the internet is a powerful tool for increasingly confident autocracies.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. — Miriam Defensor Santiago Copy Share Image
The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The old generations have thrown themselves into the abyss between the generations... to be resurrected among the young generations! — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“You want Change, today we'll show you Change! Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader 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
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
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...]… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
the marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Cloned chickens walking around without heads, The food is contaminated, the water got lead in it. Population control, make the babies sick,… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
We need to reform the constitution in Chile. The current one was written and passed in 1980 during the dictatorship. Some changes… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“In almost every detail, when one examines it closely, it is not Democracy which makes the system work, but the Individual democrats… — G.M. Mes Copy Share Image
“If the government in a country treats 60 percent of the population well and 40 percent badly, that means there is a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship, — Joseph Estrada Copy Share Image
“Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
If a person is ashamed of himself, it means that the next stage of development has come. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image