244 Quotes About Dictatorship

There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!

A country where people are afraid of even their own shadows is surely a country of dictatorship! In such vile countries there are two groups of people: The zombies, the living-dead who serve the dictator and the rest, the clever and honourable people who fight for their freedom!

Hard as it may sound, politics means manipulation, but it depends on the individuals in power, whether they are going to manipulate the society for their own benefit or influence it for its own benefit.

Patrickio Aragonés had already impassively survived six assassination attempts,had acquired the habit of dragging his feet which had been flattened out with amallet, his ears buzzed, and his hernia ached at dawn in the winter, and he hadlearned to take off and put on the golden spur as if the straps were tangled upsimply to gain time at audiences muttering God damn it these buckles Flemishblacksmiths make aren't even good for this...

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.

Rule of law is the grey area between the two extremes, viz. the moral norm of individual liberty and state coercion. When it is at the former end, it is anarchy; when at the latter, it is totalitarian repressive state. In the real world, every state operates somewhere between these two extremes. Democracies have to place restrictions on individual liberty to prevent a descent into anarchy; dictators have to provide a modicum of individual freedom to prevent desperate rebellion.

People living in the free world have no idea of the hidden economic cost the mere existence of dictatorship in the world imposes on them.

Cameroon is not a country of slaves that no man can free.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.