Dictatorship Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Dictatorship.
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“The nation does not hold democratic elections.”
“Dictatorship rests on control of the military.”
“Any and all dictatorship is bad, it has no deeming social features.”
“People ask about dictators, "Why?" But dictators themselves ask, "Why not?"”
“You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.”
“Dictatorship—A system of government where everything that is not forbidden is obligatory.”
“Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.”
“Wikipedia: Dictatorship”
“DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.”
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
“Dictatorship... is devoid of humor. The basic reason why Americans will never endure a dictator is... their sense of humor.”
“*In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.”
“Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.”
“The dictatorships, whether Fascist or Bolshevist, have been able to conceal their innumerable defeats only by ruthlessly using both the gag and the lie.”
“First of all, I have to say as somebody who was born and raised in a Communist country, I cannot criticize any action that led to the destruction of dictatorship.”
“Attacking the press is a common ploy of autocrats and dictators who want to hide the truth. They oppose an open press that holds them accountable—and you know a country is in trouble when its leader tries to challenge and undermine press freedoms.”
“[A]s a practical matter, the President is nearly always made a dictator in wartimes. But if we begin to do that every time Congress thinks there is an emergency, which is the theory we have pursued for some years, it takes very little, after a while, to make an emergency.”
“Many people who are losing faith in the prospects of liberty look for a paternalistic dictator instead. Authoritarian leaders often rise by evoking the imagined glories of the past and stoking resentment both old and new. At the end of the Cold War, the world seemed to be traveling on a natural "arc" to a more democratic future, but today's new world order has instead become a promising springtime for dictators.”