Contrary Quote by Gene Sharp

“The experiences of other totalitarian dictatorships show that behind the centralized and hierarchical communication and decision-making structures, apparently so clearly ordered by way of…

— Jens Gieseke

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

— Lawrence Lessig

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have…

— Ayn Rand

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the…

— Gene Sharp

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

— Gene Sharp

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in…

— Ralph Nader

I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the…

— Teresa Heinz

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

— Richard Perle

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like trembling acolytes…

— G. Willow Wilson

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

— Alexis Tsipras