Industrial societies can only be run successfully by…

“The source of desire to be driven by power and spread of influence makes its owner dangerous to its privileges, as it not only…

— Sirio Berati

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

— Angela Merkel

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

— Helen Fisher

I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

— Peter L. Berger

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy…

— Fidel Castro

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

— Margaret Thatcher

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

— Jaron Lanier

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of…

— Leon Jaworski

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it…

— Alberto Manguel

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the…

— Naomi Wolf

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

— Aldous Huxley

America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security of the…

— Jon Stewart

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk