
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