“If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.” — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship. — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor -… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues… — Cristian Machado Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“when your actions towards acquiring leadership in any country portrays blatant mischief orchestrated towards disregarding the concepts of the constitution, you do… — Akuku Mach Pep Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Little had changed after independence. Jomo Kenyatta’s face hung in a framed portrait in every shop where Queen Elizabeth’s had been. Some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
The main export of the countries where dictatorship rules is their national leaders. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
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