Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old dictatorship quotes, dictatorship sayings, and dictatorship proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.Plato
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.Fidel Castro
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Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.Jimmy Reid
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.Herbert Hoover
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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.Christopher Hitchens
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The hearts of the people are good, but it's the hearts of the dictators that are small.Anthony T. Hincks
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Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man.Wilhelm Reich
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Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.Dagobert D. Runes
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.Aesop
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All dictators are hypnotized and they all crawl out of the same ditch.Stephen Kyeyune
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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.Mario Vargas Llosa
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.Edward Teller
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The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.Albert Camus
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Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.Mao Zedong
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.Buckminster Fuller
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.Victor Hugo
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A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.George W. Bush
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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.Richard Perle
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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.Richard Perle
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Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.Jan Masaryk
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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
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Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.Rush Limbaugh
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Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.Harold H. Greene
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A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.Samuel Himmel
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Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.Stanley Baldwin
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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.John F. Kennedy
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The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.Theodor Haecker
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Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.Benazir Bhutto
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Every despot must have one disloyal subject to keep him sane.
George Bernard Shaw
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All dictators are alike: they have control of everything - except their feelings.Evan Esar
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Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.Evan Esar
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The country that has only one man who can save it, is not worth saving.Evan Esar
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In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.Evan Esar
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Under a dictatorship the people have to follow their leader when they should be chasing him instead.Evan Esar
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A smart dictator will look ahead and work out that he is better off liberalizing now than risk being, jailed, or killed later.Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Once most revolutionaries come to power, their inclination if they can get away with it is to be petty dictators.Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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A prudent dictator nips rebellion in the bud.Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Being a dictator can be a terrific job, but iit also can be terribly stressful, especially if money is in short supply.Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Just as democrats have no need of being civic visionaries, dictators likewise aren't bound to make life miserable.Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Economic progress is supposed to make dictatorship less necessary.Stein Ringen
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All modern states, democratic or dictatorial, even the vilest communist and fascist ones, have prided themselves on delivering social protection to their populations.Stein Ringen
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I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.Richard Branson
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Television made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.Shimon Peres
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.George Orwell
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.William Beveridge
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.Alan Coren
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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.Ernest Renan
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Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.Abraham Joshua Heschel