“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal… — Newton Lee Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to… — Paul K. Chappell Copy Share Image
“That famous dictatorship, whose supporters believe that it is called for by the historical process and consider it an indispensable prelude to… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“This country," said Eliot, "had tremendous research projects devoted to fighting odors. They were supported by individual contributions given to mothers who… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way.… — Jimmy Lai Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Hello, Rax.” Galene. On dinner duty. He sighed. He hated “fairness.” What was wrong with a dictatorship?” — Nick Thacker Copy Share Image
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor -… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
“Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“Isolated individuals, not members of such groups, usually are unable to make a significant impact on the rest of the society, much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo… — Lincoln Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“You want Change, today we'll show you Change! Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
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