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Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Dictatorship'
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino, Statesman (1933- )
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Leader (1953-2007)
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
Peter Bichsel, Swiss Writer (1935- )
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
William Blum, American Author
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist (1885-1962)
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson, British Businessman (1950- )
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski, American Author (1920-1994)
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
Alan Bullock, British Historian (1914-2004)
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
George W. Bush, American President (1946- )
Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.
James F. Byrnes, American Politician (1879-1972)
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro, Statesman (1926- )
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky, American Activist (1928- )
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, -
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant, American Historian (1885-1981)
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Friedrich Engels, German Philosopher (1820-1895)
Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
John T. Flynn, American Critic
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
Frederick Forsyth, British Author (1938- )
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman (1931- )
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Arthur Henderson, British Politician (1863-1935)
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo, French Author (1802-1885)
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