Adolescence Quote by Daniel Ortega

I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition to Somoza;…

— Gioconda Belli

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under…

— Paulo Coelho

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

— Bobby Sands

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.

— Hisham Matar

One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the…

— David Frum

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

— Miguel Angel Silvestre

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.

— Alexander Lukashenko

“Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. That abandonment…

— Gene Sharp

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and…

— Alexander Lukashenko

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and…

— Carl Jung

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism…

— Robert Kennedy