Band Quote by Wole Soyinka

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

— Richard Perle

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass…

— George Ayittey

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

— Jair Bolsonaro

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

— George W. Bush

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

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

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other…

— Frank Capra

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth…

— Benazir Bhutto

“I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is…

— Noam Chomsky

That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight…

— Gene Sharp

Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That…

— Michael A. Ledeen