If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
You look at something like Russia, or you look at something like China, where you actually allow free markets to go in.… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use… — Susan Lindauer Copy Share Image
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes… — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following… — Mohamed ElBaradei 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 human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties,… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through… — Wael Ghonim Copy Share Image
Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If… — Tony Buzan 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
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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
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
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
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Aristocracy of the soul cannot be denied because of the blind equality. We can get lost due to ideas about equality. If… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the… — Akuku Mach Pep Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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