Dictatorship Quotes - Page 7

• Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

  Emil Ludwig

  Government, Opera, Aria

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• The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

  John Cornyn

  Leadership, Running, Party

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• When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Justice For All, Liberty, Foundation

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• Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Mind, Stuff

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

  George F. Kennan

  Communication, America, Age

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• If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Country, Speak English, Eight

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• The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Government, Law

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• Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, People, Alliances

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.37, China Books

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• If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Korea, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

  Pentti Linkola

  Government, People, Stupidity

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• There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.

  Alan Keyes

  Thinking, Differences, Government

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Arlington, Virginia, www.keyesarchives.com. January 24, 2004.

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• If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul. When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers her people to be soldiers.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Hair, Government, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Ukraine, Orange, People

  Source: newslinemagazine.com

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• China came from a communist dictatorship of the ugliest kind to become a country which today has a smiling population. Things are getting better and better every day - you can feel it, you can touch it over here!

  Luigi Colani

  Country, Get Better, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

  Benazir Bhutto

  People, Needs, Social

  Source: newslinemagazine.com

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• Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends and allies stopped Gadhafi's forces in their tracks. A coalition that included the United States, NATO and Arab nations persevered to protect Libyan civilians. So this is a momentous day in the history of Libya. The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted, and with this enormous promise the Libyan people now have a great responsibility: to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gadhafi's dictatorship.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Dark, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in country after country after country, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, overthrowing elected governments and backing the rise of military dictatorships.

  Allan Nairn

  Country, Military, Latin

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can address the historical, structural and ideological conditions at the core of the violence being waged by the corporate and repressive state and to make clear that government under the dictatorship of market sovereignty and power is no longer responsive to the most basic needs of young people - or most people for that matter.

  Henry Giroux

  Artist, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with a tyranny and a dictatorship. And when they do business with a dictatorship, a tyranny, they will have problems like this. This, I believe, is the beginning of several problems that there will be over the next few years because we are talking about American companies that now want to get cozy with this regime, and they will find themselves in very serious problems such as those we're seeing at this time with the Carnival Company.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Talking, Years

  Source: www.univision.com

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• I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Support, Roles

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present dictatorship in Egypt. He might start to cozy up to the Gulf dictators as a way of trying to scare the Iranians. This could lead to a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Attitude, Russia, Egypt

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Syrian people will never forget those who extended their hand to help them rid of their dictatorship. The Syrian people also would love to be friends with all nations. I think the new Syria will contribute greatly to the return of regional stability and the birth of common development with Arab nations and the region. The only exception is those countries that still harm the Syrian peoples and take some of their rights. We are looking for a region where cooperation, prosperity, and peace flourish.

  Burhan Ghalioun

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

  Dorothy Day

  War, Hero, Men

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• Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

  Al Gore

  Country, Moving, Past

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• In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year and opens new embassies around the world. It is the dictatorship's policy that kills civilians and makes people poor. As long as the dictatorship is in power, foreign trade and investment in Burma will not benefit people. Instead, it will end up fueling the oppression in Burma.

  Zoya Phan

  Country, Years, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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