Dictatorship Quotes

372 Dictatorship quotes by 208 unique authors

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development… — Karl Marx
We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First… — Don Drysdale
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially,… — Daniel Ortega
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,… — Mervyn Peake
In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us… — Federica Montseny
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you… — Lyndon B. Johnson
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the… — Vladimir Lenin
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality… — Ayn Rand
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was… — Robert Kennedy
The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda… — Reza Aslan
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an… — Pope Francis
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and… — Zooey Deschanel
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. — Will Durant
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. — Victor Hugo
Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people… — Ashton Kutcher
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. — Mario Vargas Llosa
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I… — Wangari Maathai
North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't… — Michael Moore
So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear… — Benjamin Netanyahu
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. — George Orwell

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