Cruelty Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

— Benazir Bhutto

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

— Plato

“Dictatorships are ramifications of the ignorant and misguided few , which are then imposed upon and suffered, by the many!.”

— Daryavesh Rothmensch

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

— Aldous Huxley

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

Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

— Theodor Haecker

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

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

— Ai Weiwei

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

— James F. Cooper

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

— George W. Bush

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

— Natalie Angier