Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command… — Mikhail Gorbachev 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
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin), your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Is it possible that you do… — Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Copy Share Image
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
The Trump campaign management team had to be fired a month or so ago because of those shadowy connections with pro-Putin forces.… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
the marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse… — Alexander Fraser Tytler 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
The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though. — Zal Batmanglij 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
“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
If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
