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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.