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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

Quotes by William Blum

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Quotes by Will Durant

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Quotes by Wangari Maathai

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

Quotes by Vik Muniz

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.

Quotes by Victor Ponta

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

Quotes by Teresa Heinz

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

Quotes by Ted Lindsay

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Quotes by Shimon Peres

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

Quotes by Ruben Blades

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Quotes by Richard Branson

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.

Quotes by Rafael Correa

Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.

Quotes by Prakash Raj

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Quotes by Pope Francis

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz

To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.

Quotes by Owen Jones

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Quotes by Olusegun Obasanjo

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Quotes by Noam Chomsky

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

Quotes by Niels Bohr

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

Quotes by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

In Spain, after the dictatorship, thanks to Pedro Almodovar, many artists put on the streets through art a big explosion of freedom.

Quotes by Miguel Angel Silvestre

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Quotes by Mario Benedetti

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Quotes by Lincoln Diaz-Balart

No dictatorship can be sustained within the context of an information revolution.

Quotes by Li Lu

Many people - when they think about North Korea and the dictatorship, or the military or nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles, those things - tend to forget ordinary citizens are living there.

Quotes by Lee Hyeon-seo

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.

Quotes by Kim Young-ha

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

Quotes by Katharine Gun

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Quotes by John T. Flynn

It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.

Quotes by Javier Camara

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

Quotes by James Jannard

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Quotes by Jair Bolsonaro

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Quotes by Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Quotes by Ismail Kadare

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

Quotes by Ismail Kadare

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

Quotes by Ilhan Omar

As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

Libyans are deeply unsettled by Gaddafi and his regime's careless contempt for human life. The dictatorship is willing to employ any methods necessary to remain in power.

Quotes by Hisham Matar

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Quotes by Heinrich Boll

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

George Orwell

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.

George Orwell

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

Quotes by George F. Kennan

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

Quotes by George Ayittey

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Quotes by Friedrich Engels

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

Quotes by Frederick Forsyth

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985, Bolsonaro, his whole life, has been uplifting not only the dictatorship itself but also the methods that the dictatorship used to stay in power, including torture.

Quotes by Fernando Haddad

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

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

Quotes by Fatos Nano

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of the Council of Europe.

Quotes by Dominic Raab

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Quotes by Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Bukowski

Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.

Quotes by Carles Puigdemont

I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.

Quotes by Bret Stephens

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

Quotes by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

In Pakistan, there have been two real powers - one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.

Quotes by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

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.

Quotes by Benazir Bhutto

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Quotes by Bela Kun

When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

Quotes by Bassem Youssef

The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.

Quotes by Asma Jahangir

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.

Quotes by Asma Jahangir

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.

Quotes by Arthur Henderson

We've seen in the past, Justin Trudeau professing his admiration for the basic dictatorship of China.

Quotes by Andrew Scheer

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

Quotes by Alberto Fernandez

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Quotes by Alan Bullock

The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

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