Dictatorship Quotes - Page 5

• We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

  James W. Loewen

  Democracy

  James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

  Danny Glover

  Military, Media, Guy

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• Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

  Christopher Hitchens

  Would Be, Tactics, Revolutionary

  "Murder was their only motive" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2001.

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• Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Facts, Oppression

  Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters, 1946.

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• Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Running, Roots, History

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• The only game [Vladimir] Putin can play is to establish a lifelong dictatorship in the country, at first de facto and finally also de jure. In this case, [Dmitri] Medvedev is an interim figure bound to assist Putin in his plan to guarantee a smooth transition to a new term in office.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Games, Play

  Source: www.rferl.org

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

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

  Mark Shields

  Jobs, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Technology, People

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• Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Gun, Law

  "A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto". Interview with Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Growing Up, Men

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• The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, People, Triumph

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• 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

  People, Liberty, Groups

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• You have to be strong; you have to trust yourself that you can bring down the dictatorship regime and build a new country. You have to be part of building your country. We know that anything that you dream can happen. You have to know that you have the ability to achieve your dream.

  Tawakkol Karman

  Dream, Country, Strong

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• That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

  James Cameron

  Loss, Long, Evil

  James Cameron (1968). “What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67”

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

  Tim Kaine

  Class, Differences, Fifth Grade

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

  Angela Merkel

  Women, Long, Empowering

  Angela Merkel's Remarks in an Exchange of Toasts with President Obama, www.newsroomamerica.com. June 7, 2011.

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• People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

  Eric Sevareid

  People, Choices, Anarchy

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

  Joseph Estrada

  Democracy, Threat, Ballots

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• If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

  Will Durant

  Men, Promise, Revolution

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.

  Gene Sharp

  Army, Sacrifice, Government

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• Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

  Bernard Lewis

  Giving, Support, Islam

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• But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Simple, Voice

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• We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its current form. I'm not going to say much more on the topic. Just remember: In dictatorships, only one person is really allowed to speak. And when I write a book or a story, I too am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, Book, Writing

  "Questions for Junot Díaz". Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. April 8, 2008.

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