Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The only game [Vladimir] Putin can play is to establish a lifelong dictatorship in the country, at first de facto and finally… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse “for the dictatorship without which they… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have,… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism -… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
China came from a communist dictatorship of the ugliest kind to become a country which today has a smiling population. Things are… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a tactical alliance with the Left because I represent the idea that there is a peaceful, nonviolent way… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
If there is no word that means you don't have the concept. In North Korea they eliminate the words: depression, stress, dictatorship,… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, do not be a fanatic. Do not be a fanatic neither religious, nor ideological, nor political, neither… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues… — Cristian Machado Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image