Bears Quote by Wolfgang Schauble

Every State is a dictatorship.

— Antonio Gramsci

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

— Gene Sharp

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in…

— Friedrich Engels

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

— Alberto Fernandez

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

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

— Kenneth Waltz

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

— Alexander Lukashenko

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts;…

— Harry S. Truman

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

— Stanley Baldwin

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

— Clement Attlee

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli