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• A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

  Jamie Dimon

  Democracy, Compromise

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Russia, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

  Leon Trotsky

  Order, Class, Giving

  Leon Trotsky (1935). “The defence of terrorism: terrorism and communism; a reply to Karl Kautsky”

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• There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

  Elliott Abrams

  Example, Passing, Castro

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• The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.

  Ed Crane

  Religious, Class, People

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• Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship.

  Stephen Halbrook

  Gun, Government, Law

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• The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not a free country...It is a country of zombies who do what they are told by vested interests who intimidate them and use them to make money.

  Viera Scheibner

  Country, Vaccines, People

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• Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.

  Albert Speer

  Country, Mean, Independent

  "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial". Book by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, 1997.

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• Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

  Wole Soyinka

  Space, Aliens, Slave

  Wole Soyinka (1997). “The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis”, p.139, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

  Andy Warhol

  Keys, Doors, Democracy

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Garden, Blessing

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.115, VM eBooks

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• Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Law, Bourgeoisie, Use

  "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky" by Vladimir Lenin, (p. 11), 1972.

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• It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Tyranny, Exhausting

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• 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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Pakistan, Yoke

  "A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto". Interview with Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.

  Benjamin

  Doctors, Medicine, People

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• The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

  Theodor Haecker

  Thinking, Essence, Dictator

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• They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

  Rafael Correa

  Fighting, Government, Media

  "Ecuador's Correa pardons media accusers in libel case" by Eduardo Garcia, uk.reuters.com. February 27, 2012.

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• One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Writing, Law, Achievement

  "Lincoln Diaz-Balart opts out of 2010" by Josh Kraushaar, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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• We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

  Fatos Nano

  Gone, Anarchy, Partition

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• Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

  Victor Ponta

  Risk, Passionate, Communist

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• 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.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Struggle, Political

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• I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Father, Military

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• In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?

  Isabel Fonseca

  Children, Military, Past

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• Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Father, Son

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.

  William J. Clinton

  Epidemics, Government, Organization

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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