Dictatorship Quotes - Page 18

• The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Running, Character, Long

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.161, Basic Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Men, Cfs

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Wings, Two

  5 Copy quote

• I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rights, Issues, Minorities

  Source: www.pbs.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Spiritual, Mean, Government

  9 Copy quote

• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Betrayed, Authority, Painter

  8 Copy quote

• Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Fighting, Judgement, Negative

  Il Corriere della Sera, September 13, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Military, Democracy, Doe

  YouTube Chanel "drrosinha"/ "Dilma Rousseff e a resposta que demoliu o senador Agripino Maia (DEM-RN)", www.youtube.com. April 24, 2010.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Unique, People, Political

  "My Opposition, Volume 2 (May 1, 1945)". Diary by Friedrich Kellner, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  Charles Stross

  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

  Jacque Fresco

  Support, Half, Want

  9 Copy quote

• Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

  Adam Michnik

  Color, Black, World

  "We, the Traitors". www.worldpress.org. March 28, 2003.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Egypt, Public Opinion

  4 Copy quote

• After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Military, Real, Renaissance

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

  Rich Galen

  Democracy, Firsts, Election

  6 Copy quote

• A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Wind, Ego

  34 Copy quote

• Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

  John T. Flynn

  Jam, Dictator, Economic

  6 Copy quote

• Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.

  Fred Reed

  Father, Government, Doubt

  6 Copy quote

• Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

  David Limbaugh

  People, Assumption, Fantasy

  4 Copy quote

• In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

  Hassan Blasim

  Thinking, Violence, Facts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is not only in politics and the economy, but also in the field of creative activity. There's an elite that controls the festivals, the newspapers, and the reviews. They are just a corrupt clique with no interest in creativity.

  Hassan Blasim

  Creativity, Creative, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that such a yoke – dictatorship is a transitional step towards achieving full freedom for the people: anarchism or freedom is the aim, while state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses of people, they have first to be enslaved!

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Mean, Order, Firsts

  10 Copy quote

• In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.

  Pope Pius XI

  Hands, Credit, Politics

  4 Copy quote

• Now the dictatorship or call it the 'Indonesian regime', fully consolidated its power... You see, the West told Indonesians, indirectly of course, that 'democracy' is when you have several or many political parties, and people vote at least once in a while. But it is total nonsense. Democracy is when you vote and your vote can actually totally change the course of your nation.

  Andre Vltchek

  Party, People, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been to Cuba many times. I have spoken many times with Fidel Castro and got to know Commander Ernesto Guevara well enough. I know Cuba's leaders and their struggle. It has been difficult to overcome the blockade. But the reality in Cuba is very different from that in Chile. Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.

  Salvador Allende

  Reality, Government, Different

  Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source