Dictatorship Quotations

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

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

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

I happen to agree with the anti - dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that.

[C]entralized, health dictatorship.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized, but we are doing it because we have national interests, whether it's working with Pakistan on Afghanistan or whatever.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.