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Dictatorships Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- 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…
- 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…
- I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
More Dictatorships Quotes
- The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of… — Benazir Bhutto
- When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life,… — Benazir Bhutto
- The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have,… — 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… — Noam Chomsky
- Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty… — 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'… — 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… — 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… — Michael Parenti
- [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We… — Kate Millett
- Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi… — Michael A. Ledeen
- Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges