Quotes with dictatorship

  • One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
  • If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

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  • George W. Bush A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Junot Diaz Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Plato Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Hanif Kureishi Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind.
    The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic (2009) 308
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson 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.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • A. N. Wilson It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto 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.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • George Orwell One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell 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.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Fidel Castro The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Will Durant When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Harry S. Truman When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Harry S. Truman Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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