Top Dictatorship Quotes

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meeting is a very mediocre person. But nonetheless, you...

Dictatorship Definition

(n.) The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints bei...

For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.

I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral was a stone-faced secret police chief, personally g...

We are in the energy dictatorship that calls itself the United States of America.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have...

I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary session of the Ba'ath Party central committee: perhaps a...

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.

The most important individuals on earth have went underground, either for political, social or personal reasons. Ostracized by a society that ignores their most basic rights, they work alone to save t...

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after you...

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

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 a...

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.