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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
— George Orwell
The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
A leader should not be a dictator.
— Sunday Adelaja
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[ ... ] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.
— Noam Chomsky
Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.
— Rick Warren
In the face of a nation that shamelessly assaults the very marrow of our bones, memory is but a pale gray field.
— Xiaobo Liu
Democracy in a country where the public is uneducated is no different from having a dictatorship or an elected king.
— Zulfu Livaneli
I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.
— Irakli Okruashvili
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
— Alan Bullock
If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.
— Asne Seierstad
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
— Henry A. Wallace
Dictatorship is like a disease. It doesn't hit you in the face. It spreads slowly until it grows bigger than you think it ever could.
— Cameron Jace
Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.
— Emil Ludwig
No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.
— Herta Muller
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
— Friedrich Engels
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.
— Wole Soyinka
Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.
— Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
— Evan Esar
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
— David Crosby
You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?
— Ann Coulter
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
— Mohamed Nasheed
We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.
— James W. Loewen
Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office
— Mohamed Nasheed
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
— Will Durant
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
— Noam Chomsky
Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.
— Auliq Ice
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
— Lincoln Diaz-Balart
The formation of Stalin's character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.
— Miriam Defensor Santiago
Law without reason is criminal.
— Criss Jami
Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.
— Dagobert D. Runes
Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.
— John T. Flynn
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
— Victor Hugo
The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.
— Rashid Al-Ghannushi
democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one
— Garry Kasparov
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.
— Gloria Allred
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
— John Kennedy Toole
It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.
— Bassem Youssef
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
— Albert Camus
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
— Ignazio Silone
Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.
— Scott Farris
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
— George Orwell
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
— George Ayittey
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
— Vladimir Bukovsky
Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
— Hanif Kureishi
Red is a benevolent dictatorship.
— James Jannard
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there ... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay
— Alexander Lukashenko
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
— Mao Zedong
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
— Lincoln Diaz-Balart
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
— Clement Attlee
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
— Fatos Nano
For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.
— Auliq Ice
Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself
— Garry Kasparov
the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.
— John Shirley
Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. The
— Ludwig Von Mises
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Anarchism or freedom is the aim, while the state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses, they have first to be enslaved.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
— Angela Merkel
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
— J. Christopher Herold
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
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
— Natalie Angier
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
— Margaret Atwood
The clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country. They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
— Boris Yeltsin
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
— A. N. Wilson
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
— Junot Diaz
A man of God doesn't lead a woman through dictatorship, he leads her through a partnership guided by God.
— Stephan Labossiere
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
— William O. Douglas
