Dictatorship Quote by George Orwell

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In a dictatorship you must be careful about what you say. In a democracy you can say whatever you want… the important is that…

— Dario de Judicibus

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the…

— George Orwell

“There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn’t believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

— Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

— Pascal Mercier

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

— Karl Marx

“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.”

— C.S. Lewis

“A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open…

— Ronald Syme

“You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

— James Madison

“That famous dictatorship, whose supporters believe that it is called for by the historical process and consider it an indispensable prelude to the dawn…

— Frantz Fanon