“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a… — Barack Obama 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
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen.… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major. — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
When a dictatorship imprisons someone or makes them disappear, it's actually a very strategic move. We forget that. It's not as senseless… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
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
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
The difference between a martyr and a cannon fodder is not far from the difference between a scout and a spy. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone,… — Sharif Abdel Kouddous Copy Share Image
Dictatorships can exist with free markets - not that China is really a free market - especially in poor countries where the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Keep the faith. Whatever that may be. Don't get too depressed yet, because I have a belief in America being very diverse… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
![“Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation…” quote by Gianfranco Fini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/714/gianfranco-fini-34906_causes_resistants-were-on-the-right-side-sal-re_631180.jpg)
