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So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into… — Terence McKenna
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. — William Blum
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed,… — Unknown Author
The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night. — Boris Yeltsin
Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office — Mohamed Nasheed
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship — Mohamed Nasheed
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled. — George Ayittey
Fascism is not the result of dictatorship. — John T. Flynn
Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of… — Pentti Linkola
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country. — Gene Sharp
Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship… — Gene Sharp
That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with… — Gene Sharp
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and… — Llewellyn Rockwell
There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by… — Karl Popper
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.… — Andrei Sakharov
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship — Lincoln Diaz-Balart
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language. — Oriana Fallaci
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. — Alan Bullock
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the… — Salvatore Quasimodo
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building… — Nikita Khrushchev
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United… — Clinton Rossiter
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must… — Stephen Vizinczey

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