“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is… — Wangari Maathai 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
“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
Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the… — Anonymous 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 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 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 China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a… — John Green Copy Share Image
... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should… — Paul Bloom 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
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
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
The United States has to be everything that China under dictatorship is not: well governed, intolerant of corruption, respectful of privacy, protective… — Tom Malinowski 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
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
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