Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven,…

— Benazir Bhutto

The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from a 'socialist'…

— Jamelle Bouie

“In the early 1970s the regime dropped a very clear official hint that a close relative would become Kim Il-sung’s successor. The 1970 edition…

— Bradley K. Martin

“It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate…

— John Boyne

“As James Heartfield, author of The European Union and the End of Politics, noted, to follow such events is to ‘Step through the looking…

— Mick Hume

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

— Arthur Frommer

“If I was a man, everybody would marvel at my aggression. I’d be called a go-getter, ambitious. People would respect me. However, I am…

— Michael Phillip Cash

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

— Barbara Amiel

Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more…

— Sasha Grey

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which…

— Mahathir Mohamad

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

— Tom Stoppard

“A president of dictatorial persuasion who coopts the media in his disregard for the system’s checks and balances is nigh impossible to contain.”

— Andrew McCarthy

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I tell you that I'm not dictatorial, I'm not intolerant, I'm not overpowering! You're all wrong, wrong, wrong, I tell you! I'm the most…

— Neville Chamberlain

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

— George Washington