Money Quote by Hisham Matar

Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore…

— Thomas Pogge

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship…

— Pope Pius XI

“When governments control everything, your perceived or glorified wealth is just an illusion. Attaining true generational wealth requires working rules of law, disaster-proof property…

— Olawale Daniel

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

— William Greider

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

— Vladimir Voinovich

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

In authoritarian societies, control over the production, distribution, and circulation is generally in the hands of the government, or what might be termed traditional…

— Henry Giroux

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

— Charlie Chaplin

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

Exaggeration of the national values is the character of dictators.

— Ilkin Santak

Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy…

— John Woolman