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No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Author:
Plato
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Author:
Shimon Peres
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Author:
George Orwell
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
Author:
George Orwell
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Author:
Olusegun Obasanjo
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In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
Author:
Ted Lindsay
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My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
Author:
Bela Kun
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The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
Author:
George Kennan
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
Author:
Mikhail Gorbachev
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The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
Author:
Frederick Forsyth
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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
Author:
John Flynn
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Author:
Friedrich Engels
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Author:
Will Durant
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Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
Author:
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Author:
Fidel Castro
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Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.
Author:
James Byrnes
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A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
Author:
George Bush
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Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
Author:
Alan Bullock
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Author:
Charles Bukowski
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Author:
Richard Branson
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Author:
Niels Bohr
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Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
Author:
William Blum
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It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
Author:
Benazir Bhutto
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Author:
Corazon Aquino
