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• The violence stems from injustice, because people feel they have been treated unfairly in the Middle East, whether that means military occupation, starvation under U.N. sanctions, whether it means that they have a dictatorship imposed on them, propped up by the West. This is why people turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.

  Robert Fisk

  Military, Mean, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

  Albert Camus

  Culture, Firsts, Concern

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.95, Vintage

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• Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'

  Cal Thomas

  New York, Media, Years

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• Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

  Kshama Sawant

  Socialism, Economy, Better Life

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

  George Orwell

  Naval

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?

  David Icke

  Doors, Choices, Humanity

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• I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Years

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• The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law, since it establishes a legal framework to crush free thinking and interrupt individual questioning of the government. It is the beginning of all dictatorship in America.

  Susan Lindauer

  Crush, Thinking, Government

  "Susan Lindauer: Secret Charges and The Patriot Act". Interview with Michael Collins, www.scoop.co.nz. March 10, 2009.

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• The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Scotch, Champion

  "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. August 16, 2009.

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• Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, 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. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

  Tony Blair

  Gun, Law, Western Values

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Beautiful, War, Women

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• People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived - whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman.

  Junot Diaz

  Strong, Two, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• This (environmental treaty) process has nothing to do with the weather. It has nothing to do with man's impact on the weather. It has everything to do with establishing the socialist international at the heart of the UN and making every nation bow the knee to this new dictatorship, and the climate is merely a fig leaf to cover what they are trying to do.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Heart, Men, Weather

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• [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

  Kate Millett

  Jail, Mind, Steps

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• My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The cool thing about being an aunt is like, I can leave. No offense to my big brother Drew, but that is slavery. I dare you to take a shower. You can't do anything unless they let you. It's a dictatorship. They're little dictators in their crib.

  Renee Zellweger

  Mom, Brother, Children

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• Governments,
  whether they're dictatorships or democracies,
  reflect the people.
  When the people get fed up,
  they throw them out.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Democracy

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• I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just family atmosphere that wasn't right to bring up your kid in a country where there's a dictatorship or a communist type sense, so I incorporate that int music.

  Cristian Machado

  Country, Moving, Kids

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.

  Bjork

  Thinking, Feelings, Stuff

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• The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Military, Party

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.125, Seven Stories Press

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• So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Justice, Leader

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• Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.

  Juan Gelman

  Book, Thinking, Air

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• A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

  Tristan Jones

  Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

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• Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

  Karl Marx

  Political, Revolution, Energetic

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1977). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

  Ai Weiwei

  Stories, Turns, Be You

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• You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Gay, Boys

  "The She-Pundit Strikes Again". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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