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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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• I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

  Peter Beinart

  Memories, Struggle, Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Russia, Putin

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.

  Garry Kasparov

  Retirement, Fall, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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 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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• 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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• When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Children, Military

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Children, Smart, People

  Shirley MacLaine (1975). “You Can Get There From here”

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• ... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

  Margaret Walker

  Country, Thinking, Long

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

  Gloria Allred

  Marriage, Matter

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• Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Children, Spain, Germany

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• The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

  Edd Doerr

  Government, Yugoslavia, White

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• The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Father, Simple, Democracy

  "There Is Only One Issue In America" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2011.

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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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