Dictatorship Quotes - Page 12

• A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Reflection, Individuality, Television

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• This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Flower, Unique, Turkeys

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• This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

  Pope Francis

  Change, Ideas, People

  "Why Pope Francis Isn’t a Liberal Reformer" by Dennis Earl, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2015.

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• We need to reform the constitution in Chile. The current one was written and passed in 1980 during the dictatorship. Some changes were made after the return of democracy, but its origins remain illegitimate. Instead of continuing to make fixes here and there, we need to undertake fundamental changes to our constitution to make it reflect the reality of our democratic society.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Reality, Democracy, Constitution

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's true that we in Iraq are now paying a heavy price as a consequence of senseless violence, but nonetheless there are many positive things happening generally on the part of people in Arab countries who were living in darkness and absolute silence because of dictatorship. The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, People, Silence

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• Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.

  Albert Speer

  Country, Mean, Independent

  "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial". Book by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, 1997.

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• 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

  Program, Prelude, Aim

  J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Spheres, England, Jewish Life

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• You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Needs, Poverty, Produce

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• 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

  Artist, Lines, Salute

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• Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Enemy, Democracy

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

  Ayn Rand

  Force, Periods, Tyranny

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.174, Penguin

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• I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  War, Lying, Support

  "The Secret of Victorious Living: Sermons on Christianity Today". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1934.

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• Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

  Trevanian

  Thinking, Democracy, Way

  Trevanian (2011). “Shibumi”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship.

  Dan Smoot

  Government, Pyramids, America

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• The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

  Helmut Thielicke

  Christian, Empowering, May

  Helmut Thielicke (1966). “Theological Ethics: Foundations”

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• In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, Mob Rule, Flags

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.

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• Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Essentials, Enforcement, Coercion

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• The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not a free country...It is a country of zombies who do what they are told by vested interests who intimidate them and use them to make money.

  Viera Scheibner

  Country, Vaccines, People

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• Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship.

  Stephen Halbrook

  Gun, Government, Law

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• The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

  Tom Anderson

  Children, Government, Income

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

  Will Durant

  Liberty, Chaos, Exceed

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• An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.

  David Frum

  Usa, Tyrants, Iraq

  David Frum (2003). “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush”, p.164, Random House

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• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

  Pascal Mercier

  Revolution, Facts, Duty

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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