Dictatorships Quotes

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The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit. — Benazir Bhutto
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice… — Benazir Bhutto
The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign… — Mitch McConnell
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,… — Noam Chomsky
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are… — Thomas Naylor
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them… — Thomas Sowell
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are. — Gene Sharp
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
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
Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is… — Michael A. Ledeen
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention… — Ludwig von Mises
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office — Mohamed Nasheed
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
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers. — Eamon Dunphy

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