Dictatorship Quote by Robert Payne Download Open image “A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.” — Robert Payne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dictatorship
Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power.… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice.… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
