Dictatorship Quotes · Page 5

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

— Benazir Bhutto

To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.

— Li Lu

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

— Christopher Hitchens

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Karl Marx

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

— Dorothy Day

The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood.

— Ilkin Santak

Freedom of individual is measured by reaching his own values.

— Ilkin Santak

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

— Alexis Tsipras

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who…

— Danny Glover

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a…

— J. Christopher Herold

“Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country.”

— Anonymous

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

— Ayn Rand

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

— Irakli Okruashvili

When you think that you are free, do you pay attention to the elements of your thoughts and where have they leaked…

— Ilkin Santak

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

— Tim Kaine

The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of…

— Pope Francis

The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress…

— Gilles Deleuze

In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only game [Vladimir] Putin can play is to establish a lifelong dictatorship in the country, at first de facto and finally…

— Garry Kasparov

The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one…

— Harry S. Truman

I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition…

— Gioconda Belli

I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution.…

— Rafael Cruz

America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they…

— George Soros

I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative…

— Adam Michnik

I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering…

— Ted Cruz

I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with…

— Marco Rubio

“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

“I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised…

— Milton Mayer

If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so…

— Tom Ford

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

— Victor Hugo

“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.”

— Scott Farris

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

— Hugh Hefner

No one has right to vote on issue he is not familiar with.

— Ilkin Santak

A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism.

— Ilkin Santak

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

— Evan Esar

Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it.

— Ilkin Santak

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

— George W. Bush