Dictatorship Quotes

372 Dictatorship quotes by 208 unique authors

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. — Shimon Peres
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised… — Vladimir Putin
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of… — Salman Rushdie
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an… — Jose Saramago
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are… — Marjane Satrapi
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. — Harry S. Truman
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. — Henry A. Wallace
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. — A. N. Wilson
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the… — Charles E. Wilson
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. — Philip Pullman
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit… — Elwyn Brooks White
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do… — Ayn Rand
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of… — Benjamin Rush
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to… — Aldous Huxley
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so… — Stephen King
Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind — Hanif Kureishi
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And… — John Green
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his… — Ludwig von Mises
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality,… — Gilles Deleuze

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