The more religious a state is, the more it resembles its religions example of hell on the earth. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Give me a sword and I will slay a man, give me a voice and I will slay a country.” — Konrad Copy Share Image
“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you. — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
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
If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
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