Dictatorship Quotes

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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.

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.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

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

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

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

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

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you have an efficient government, you have a 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.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

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

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.

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.

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.

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