Dictatorship Quotes - Page 9

• If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

  Asne Seierstad

  Lying, Years, People

  "A Hundred & One Days: An Interview with Asne Seierstad". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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• The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Democracy, Dictator, Judgment

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• That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.

  George Lucas

  Issues, Democracy, Doe

  "Democracy, Tyranny, And Star Wars" By Paul Davidson, www.ign.com. April 25, 2002.

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• Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

  Ai Weiwei

  Luxury, Kind, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

  Karl Popper

  Always Wrong, Happens

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• Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Raw Materials, Unemployment, Famine

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Three, Brazil, Flesh

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• Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment of our semiotic existence, method and intuition complement one another.

  Mihai Nadin

  Intuition, Doe, Anarchy

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism - they're all dictatorships. And I think any kind of dictatorship is bad for the individual.

  Frank Capra

  Thinking, Democracy, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

  Frank Capra

  Kids, People, Groups

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Country, Night, Clouds

  Appeal to citizens of Russia to oppose the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, August 19, 1991.

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• In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they tried the same thing in the 60s it instantly collapsed because people simply laughed at it so they couldn't do it. Even a dictatorship can't do everything it wants. It's got to have some degree of popular support.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Support, Atheism

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• The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to collapse. It's the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

  Adam Yauch

  Responsibility, Holding On, Situation

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• The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Wisdom, Party, Politics

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• For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in office, he introduced legislation that reformed and over five years effectively dismantled the electoral system. So anything that passes for elections in Russia today has nothing to do with actual elections.

  Masha Gessen

  Office, Today, Election

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• The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.

  Pope Pius XI

  Children, Ambition, Greed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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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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• I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Hands, Oppression

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Struggle

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

  Gloria Allred

  Marriage, Matter

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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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• I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Class, Taught, Ministry

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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