1969 Quote by Wilhelm Reich

“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.”

— Anonymous

“We're living in a perverted and twisted smokescreen of democracy that's nothing short of dictatorship, where the unelected actually rule. And behind it lurks…

— Sibel Hodge

“Most of the dictators do allow freedom in the private space. it is their tentacles in the public space that are considered the killers…

— R. N. Prasher

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object…

— George Orwell

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Gene Sharp

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

— Theodor Haecker

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

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

— Edward Teller

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts…

— Euripides

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt