Dictatorship Quotes

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

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.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

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.

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.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

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.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

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.

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.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

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.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

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.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.