Dictatorship Quotes - Page 6

• You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Boys, Order, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.219, Random House

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• Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, Cuba, Revolutionary

  "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.

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• Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

  Evan Esar

  People, Prison, Superiors

  "20,000 Quips and Quotes". Book by Evan Esar, 1968.

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• If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

  Michael Pare

  Fall, Leader, Political

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• There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Names, Principles, Invisible

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• The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, Political, Mind

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• In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Light, Liberty, States

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• A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Democracy, Republic, Sticks

  "Chalmers Johnson: 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 27, 2007.

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• The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

  Natalie Angier

  Enemy, Complacency, Insidious

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• I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Cells, Jail, Honor

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• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Democracy, Minorities

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships.

  Thomas Naylor

  Country, Strong, Military

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• Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.

  William E. Jenner

  Mean, Nwo, World Government

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• When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think critically -- they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda. A democracy is only as wise as its citizens, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship.

  Paul K. Chappell

  Wise, Art, Thinking

  Dr Paul Chappell, Dr, Paul K. Chappell (2013). “Peaceful Revolution: How We can Create the Future Needed for Humanity's Survival”, p.38, Easton Studio Press LLC

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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Believe, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

  Matt Damon

  Decision, Directors, Arbitrary

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Russia, Democracy, Painful

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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• I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

  Julia Alvarez

  Running, Difficult Situations, Silence

  Source: ncac.org

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• An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

  Mario Benedetti

  Writing, People, Weapons

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• 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

  Country, People, Way

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• I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

  Miguel Angel Silvestre

  Spain, Explosions, Bigs

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Hurt, Iran, Way

  "Ahmadinejad accused of tainting Iran's image in TV debate" by Shirzad Bozorgmehr, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2009.

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• I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

  Mario Benedetti

  Writing, Thinking, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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