244 Quotes About Dictatorship

If we don't stand up for others when they're persecuted, we lose the right to complain when it's done to us.

Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

Serikali inayodhulumu wananchi wake ni hatari kuliko simba.

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Power without morality leads to abuse, and freedom without morality leads to depravity.