Dictatorship Quote by Newton Lee

“For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?”

— Anna Jae

“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress…

— Theodore Roosevelt

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

— Lee Harvey Oswald

“Democracy is about the majority understanding that minorities have rights too.”

— Gavin Esler

“Freedom consists of conforming to the will of the majority.”

— Julian Barnes

“Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A…

— Nelson Mandela

“Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.”

— Gene Sharp

“Laws don't limit freedom. Laws insure the freedoms of the majority. Laws are unjust when they serve to put the majority of the people…

— Northern Adams

“democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.”

— Jerome Nathanson

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Freedom ”

— Charles Evans Hughes

“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the administration to…

— Walter Lippmann