“If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who… — Joseph Kabila Copy Share Image
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose… — Paul Wolfowitz 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
Balochistan, and to some extent Sindh too, has a general feeling that they are not part of the decision-making process in Pakistan… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985,… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
“The harder a government, such as a dictatorship, tries to maintain monetary policy autonomy, the more it must either limit the movement… — Janet M. Tavakoli Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This… — Pope Francis 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
Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The negative side of democracy is that the position of ideological minorities is not in power. However, the ideological minorities are often… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“In a dictatorship you must be careful about what you say. In a democracy you can say whatever you want… the important… — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
A person with noble soul will never cease ignoring the provocation. The nobility of his soul is the only answer to these… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny… — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
There cannot be such thing as a hate crime against radicalism. Because radicalism itself is a hate crime. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
![“Balochistan, and to some extent Sindh too, has a general feeling that they are not part of the decision-making process in Pakistan and are ruled by a Punjabi dictatorship. There is a lot of exploitation of the rich resources [in Balochistan] which the locals are not gaining from. As long as this…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/787/noam-chomsky-42_decision_balochistan-and-to-some-extent-sindh-too_2987262.jpg)
