I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“There is no leader who has remained in power for too long and has not morally decayed, who has not become involved… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...]… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen 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
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
“I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image