Words matter. These are the best Dictatorship Quotes from famous people such as Rafael Cruz, Benazir Bhutto, Vladimir Bukovsky, Richard Branson, Corazon Aquino, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
I cannot think of a tactical alliance with the Left because I represent the idea that there is a peaceful, nonviolent way to dislodge a dictatorship… A tactical Left alliance damages my argument. If I succeed with them, we will never know if peace can really produce freedom.
Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country.
For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship – Shakespeare, Cervantes.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
I’m a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who’s lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay’s dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
The truth is, it’s a totalitarian dictatorship when you’re making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it’s a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that’s what they’ve come away with.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
In Pakistan, there have been two real powers – one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.
Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.
We’ve seen in the past, Justin Trudeau professing his admiration for the basic dictatorship of China.
When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.
Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
No dictatorship can be sustained within the context of an information revolution.
The reason there’s not a dictatorship in Chile and that there’s a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today – and that Haiti has a nascent democracy – is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It’s because the world has said, ‘Enough.’
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
No dictatorship can be sustained within the context of an information revolution.
I’ve heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that’s probably the best way a director should be. They’re open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it’s got to be that one person’s vision. That’s what I think makes a film really stand out.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn’t easy. And, you know, you don’t end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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.
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.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.
Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it – there is a reason economists talk about ‘the curse of oil,’ and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.
To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.
I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It’s a band of power-driven people.
It’s very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.
The United States isn’t a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us – all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.
We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam’s baleful dictatorship.
Look, I don’t think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn’t have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.
I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.
Reading ‘Animal Farm’ set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control us – they were all in that book.
I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there’s no dictatorship here.
‘1984,’ one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In ‘1984,’ the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.
It’s very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.
It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships.
Red is a benevolent dictatorship.
I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they’ve done with me?
