Dictatorship Quotes

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. (Harry S. Truman)
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. View quote
Fidel Castro
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. View quote
George F. Kennan
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. View quote
Will Durant
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. View quote
Shimon Peres
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. View quote
Ismail Kadaré
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. View quote
George Orwell
England is no longer controlled by Britons. We are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship - a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life. View quote
Nesta Helen Webster
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. View quote
Arthur Henderson
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. (Charles E. Wilson)
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Dictatorship is like a giant beech tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
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. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is. View quote
Éamon de Valera
Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship. View quote
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
The Berlin Wall is perhaps the most visible expression of the moral gulf between free democracy and totalitarian dictatorship. View quote
Helmut Kohl
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy? View quote
Ann Coulter
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion. View quote
Marc Jacobs
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
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. View quote
Gianfranco Fini