Dictatorship And Democracy Quotes

The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious. — Wilhelm Reich

Democracy in a country where the public is uneducated is no different from having a dictatorship or an elected king. — Zulfu Livaneli

but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly. — Swami Vivekananda

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

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research. — Kieran Bew

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers'
the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy. — Hugo Chavez

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. — Shimon Peres

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats — Garry Kasparov

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!
Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat! — NoViolet Bulawayo

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. — Niels Bohr

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I have rendered my country and people an enormous service. They owe me everything. — Mobutu Sese Seko

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

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy. — Dilma Rousseff

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden. — Aysha Taryam

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy. — Elie Wiesel

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one — Garry Kasparov

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself. — Paulo Coelho

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator. — Scott Farris

Swindlers are notoriously gullible. — Mason Cooley

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships. — James W. Loewen

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it's a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor. — Andy Warhol

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned. — Woody Allen

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. — Pablo Neruda

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me. — John Lone

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. — William Blum

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy represents the dictatorship of the exploiting classes. — Che Guevera

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

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan