Democracy Quote by Ron Paul

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

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created…

— Shirley MacLaine

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

— David Crosby

Dictatorships can exist with free markets - not that China is really a free market - especially in poor countries where the regime insists…

— Garry Kasparov

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

— Gene Sharp

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military…

— Noam Chomsky

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office

— Mohamed Nasheed

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in…

— Ralph Nader

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

— Richard Perle

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

— Alexis Tsipras