This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“attained democracy, as brutal dictatorships took over, led to the cynical phrase: "One man, one vote-one time.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
“The White House is controlled by the clandestine mind, operators who have instigated military coup d’états and military dictatorships elsewhere. They have… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
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
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
Dictatorships can exist with free markets - not that China is really a free market - especially in poor countries where the… — Garry Kasparov 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
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The experiences of other totalitarian dictatorships show that behind the centralized and hierarchical communication and decision-making structures, apparently so clearly ordered by… — Jens Gieseke Copy Share Image
“What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“We see here that Plato recognizes only one ultimate standard, the interest of the state. Everything that furthers it is good and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
