Dictatorship Quotes · Page 19

It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Creation can always lead to dictatorship.

— Wu Shanzhuan

If a person is ashamed of himself, it means that the next stage of development has come.

— Ilkin Santak

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means…

— Anonymous

I think in Pakistan there is already democracy and no dictatorship. And recently a few years ago, the Pakistani people stood against…

— Shahbaz Bhatti

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes…

— Leon Trotsky

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

— Lord Hailsham

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

— Margaret Atwood

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

— Elliott Abrams

You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone.

— Ilkin Santak

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

My parents grew up in Haiti, and unfortunately they watched the country they loved slide into dictatorship.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

— Elie Wiesel

Centralized health dictatorship.

— Newt Gingrich

So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,…

— Gene Sharp

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

Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment…

— Mihai Nadin

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

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.

— Sebastian Lelio

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those…

— Juan Gelman

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few…

— Ed Crane

I was unlucky enough to grow up under a military dictatorship which had very Left-wing, socialist policies. It's not something I would…

— Kemi Badenoch

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around -…

— Paul van Dyk

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

— Will Durant