The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience. — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Dictatorships are ramifications of the ignorant and misguided few , which are then imposed upon and suffered, by the many!.” — Daryavesh Rothmensch Copy Share Image
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp 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
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
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
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
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky 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
“Most of the dictators do allow freedom in the private space. it is their tentacles in the public space that are considered… — R. N. Prasher 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
“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 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
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
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
“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 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
“General Gerardo Machado always had an eye for the ladies and enjoyed partying at the swankiest nightclubs in Havana. For a time… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!" "Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
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