There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In a dictatorship you must be careful about what you say. In a democracy you can say whatever you want… the important… — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov 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
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
In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Wananchi wanapokosa huduma za muhimu za kijamii (kama vile afya, elimu, chakula, malazi, na ulinzi) ilhali wanalipa kodi, na wameajiri serikali kuwaendeshea… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The negative side of democracy is that the position of ideological minorities is not in power. However, the ideological minorities are often… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom. — Miguel Angel Silvestre Copy Share Image
Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who… — Joseph Kabila Copy Share Image
I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
