244 Quotes About Dictatorship

The most effective way to control the people is to make them reliant on you through consistent reward with the least effort on their part.

One-man regimes belong to old eras; they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

[N]icht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschiedenen [...] sondern durch Eisen und Blut.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate communism as an idea. I hate communism as a practice. Maybe one day the communist utopia will be realized. I don’t know! But so far none of the communist states has come close to it. Instead, what I have noticed is that communism is generally the refuge of a fascist to legitimize his dictatorship. At least that’s what history tells us.

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Bit by bit, the uprising that had brought out the best in Syrians and projected their aspirations and yearnings was vanishing as pain, vengefulness, and war took over. It was yet another page from the playbook of Hafez as well as all the despots who clung desperately to power at the start of the Arab Spring: civil war is acceptable and even desirable to defend the leader.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.