244 Quotes About Dictatorship

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

الحاكم الضعيف يبطش بمن يخالفه الرأي، يكتم الأنفاس لأنه يعلم أن الرأي الآخر الحر سوف يصرع رأيه، وأنه لابد أن يقيد الناس حتى لا يتحركوا، وأن يكممهم حتى لا يفتحوا أفواههم، وأن يضع عصابات سوداء على عيونهم حتى لا يروا أخطاءه!

Arbitrary power [tyranny, dictatorship] is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness [lawlessness, anarchy]." — George Washington

To destroy communism we must be willing to risk our lives. If we are unwilling to do this, then we won't survive. The Red Dictatorship will triumph. Cruelty, war, famine and distress will rule the earth. Then, truly, would come the end of history --- and a world where The Gulag Archipelago sings its woeful tune, like some broken record, through all posterity."Origins of the Fourth World War

He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as "Wotan's Mickey Mouse.

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

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.