Dictatorship Quotes

372 Dictatorship quotes by 208 unique authors

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in… — Joseph Goebbels
Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were… — Unknown Author
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay — Alexander Lukashenko
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are. — Gene Sharp
So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army… — Gene Sharp
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a… — Leon Trotsky
History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization… — Olof Palme
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just… — Ricardo Semler
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,… — Uta Hagen
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did… — Sylvia Pankhurst
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. — Miriam Defensor Santiago
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by… — Ayn Rand
For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American… — Michael Parenti
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic… — Kate Millett
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is… — Michael Pare
My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The… — Renee Zellweger
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still… — Christopher Hitchens
You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy? — Ann Coulter
The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law,… — Unknown Author
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for… — Edward Abbey
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that. — Karl Marx
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — Plato
When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think… — Paul K. Chappell

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