Arrested Quote by Paulo Coelho

I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.

— Hisham Matar

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

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

To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985, Bolsonaro, his…

— Fernando Haddad

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

— Arthur Frommer

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and…

— Alexander Lukashenko

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.

— Alexander Lukashenko

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

— Charlie Chaplin

I never had any freedom - over my whole life, there had always been people telling me what to do. And when I did…

— Sergei Polunin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically,…

— Daniel Ortega