244 Quotes About Dictatorship

No sooner did I start college than President Park Chung-hee’s Yushin dictatorship began. Everything was in turmoil, and not a day went by without riots and school closures. My classmates were being arrested left and right, and every time I went to class, there were fewer and fewer of them.

Polish leader Boleslaw Bierut, a charisma-free life support system for a bureaucrat's mustache.

الدكتاتورية جعلت من بعضنا فراعنة صغاراً يتصورون أن من حقهم أن يستهتروا بالناس ولا يحسبوا لهم حساباً

Under any dictatorial regime, being a dissident is often a one-day job.

খেলার বাইরেবেটা কবি ! লাথি মেরে বের করে দাও।এখানে ওর কোনি কাজ নেই ।ও খেলতে জানে না । ও কখনও উত্তেজিত হয় নাকিংবা স্পষ্ট করে কথা বলে ।ও এমনকি অলৌকিক ব্যাপার দেখতে পায় না ।

تعبتُ، وأنا أحرسهم في أحلامي كل ليلة، وأحرس الأحياء في نهاري. أحدهم سيفتك بي. من مكانٍ ما سيأتي الموت، سيأتي الموت من الموتى، كما يأتي من الأحياء. ساعتها سأبقى وحدي هنا. سيخروجون وأبقى. وأنت لابد أن تموت معهم، كما يموت الجميع. كل مَن يريد موتي لابد أن يموت

...no people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated National Will... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys and he will stand for everything traditionally American.

The upper middle class and the economic right, who had favored the coup, were euphoric. At first they were a little shocked when they saw the consequences of their action; they had never lived in a dictatorship and did not know what it was like. They thought the loss of democratic freedoms would be temporary and that it was possible to go without individual or collective rights for a while so long as the regime respected the tenets of free enterprise.

It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.