“The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.” — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves. — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If citizen is legally forced to recognize the sovereignty of the state - there cannot be any speech about freedom. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he… — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
All the Cuban government wants to do - and all it's demonstrated to the world - is that they want a repressive,… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the… — Rich Galen Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
You have to be strong; you have to trust yourself that you can bring down the dictatorship regime and build a new… — Tawakkol Karman Copy Share Image
“democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.” — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When something looks cheap, it looks cheap and that is all, and there is no justification for this cheapness. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think in Pakistan there is already democracy and no dictatorship. And recently a few years ago, the Pakistani people stood against… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“In every dictatorship, fear is the key. Both for the government and the governed. Much of what the Nazis did, they tried… — Ryan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
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![“I think in Pakistan there is already democracy and no dictatorship. And recently a few years ago, the Pakistani people stood against the dictatorship of [Pervez] Musharraf and compelled him to resign. So now it is the people's democracy so I don't think any chance that the people should stand…” quote by Shahbaz Bhatti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2a/shahbaz-bhatti-38497_administration_i-think-in-pakistan-there-is-already-dem_1934934.jpg)
![“The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.” quote by Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/albert-camus-47_dictatorship_the-only-way-out-of-international-dictat_1021328.jpg)
