Dictatorship Quotes · Page 6

“Serikali inayodhulumu wananchi wake ni hatari kuliko simba.”

— Enock Maregesi

When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs.

— Ilkin Santak

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

— Hugo Chavez

“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”

— Jurgen Appelo

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

— Lord Hailsham

“Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.”

— Amit Kalantri

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

— Tristan Jones

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

— Miriam Defensor Santiago

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

— Karine Jean-Pierre

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not…

— Ilkin Santak

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient…

— Ignazio Silone

The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera.

— Ilkin Santak

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the…

— Arthur Henderson

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

— Plato

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

— Gene Sharp

Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by…

— Andrei Sakharov

“The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking…

— Gene Sharp

Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under…

— Gao Xingjian

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and…

— Ludwig von Mises

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it…

— Ayn Rand

Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force…

— Benjamin

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not…

— Alan Keyes

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods…

— Ai Weiwei

The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and…

— William Greider

“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

“The historian Meike Wöhlert has analyzed and compared the judgments rendered by courts responsible for malicious acts of treason in five cities.…

— Rudolph Herzog

One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II,…

— Gavin Friday

First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul…

— Shahbaz Bhatti

“Comrades, we are going to try to cheer you up, and our sense of humor will help us in this endeavor, although…

— Rudolph Herzog

“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of…

— W.H. Auden

“Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was, after all, the basis of any democracy. Whenever asked, Sir Alan…

— Jeffrey Archer

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

— Katharine Gun

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

— Joseph Estrada

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

— William Blum

“Controlling the internet is a powerful tool for increasingly confident autocracies.”

— Roger Spitz

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

— Evan Esar

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

— Edward Teller

To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.

— Li Lu

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

— Ilkin Santak