“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.” — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny… — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
There cannot be such thing as a hate crime against radicalism. Because radicalism itself is a hate crime. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A person with noble soul will never cease ignoring the provocation. The nobility of his soul is the only answer to these… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think in Pakistan there is already democracy and no dictatorship. And recently a few years ago, the Pakistani people stood against… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“In every dictatorship, fear is the key. Both for the government and the governed. Much of what the Nazis did, they tried… — Ryan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV… — Margaret Thatcher 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
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
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
“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
“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
It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen.… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major. — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
The difference between a martyr and a cannon fodder is not far from the difference between a scout and a spy. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image