Political dictatorships take possession not just of money…

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall…

— Salman Rushdie

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon…

— George Lucas

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

— Alexis Tsipras

“What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like trembling acolytes…

— G. Willow Wilson

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

— Richard Perle

I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the…

— Teresa Heinz

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in…

— Ralph Nader

“attained democracy, as brutal dictatorships took over, led to the cynical phrase: "One man, one vote-one time.”

— Thomas Sowell

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office

— Mohamed Nasheed

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

— Harold H. Greene

“The experiences of other totalitarian dictatorships show that behind the centralized and hierarchical communication and decision-making structures, apparently so clearly ordered by way of…

— Jens Gieseke

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military…

— Noam Chomsky