The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship. — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.” — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will… — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Everyone has his own need for public and therefore public should not be artificially imposed on a person. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Are the entire people equal before the god? I do not know. But all gods are equal before the human being, especially… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
This (environmental treaty) process has nothing to do with the weather. It has nothing to do with man's impact on the weather.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The… — Stephen Halbrook Copy Share Image
“At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That… — Adam Yauch 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
“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
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
There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The problem of ISIS is not recent. Ever since the Second World War, people in this region have been, and are today,… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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