“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.” — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
“Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any healthy ideology trying to change the world. It doesn't need to change the world; those who change the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
The era of humanism is over. Advanced people experience the era of post-humanism. Now human being is not under the values, he… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
For me, growing up as an activist under an oppressive dictatorship in Uganda, the U.N. was a friend to those of us… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
' A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their Government and their Media… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
All government is a mess. Democracy is always messy. It's meant to be messy because smooth, thoughtful, precise, effective government leads to… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“This country," said Eliot, "had tremendous research projects devoted to fighting odors. They were supported by individual contributions given to mothers who… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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