Quotes about Dictatorship

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Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight. — Criss Jami, Healology
Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt — Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow — Criss Jami, Healology
A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perf — Criss Jami, Healology
As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest pr — Anonymous
Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of — Christopher Hitchens
It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where tho — Juan Gelman
We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their fol — Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives. — Ally Condie, Matched
Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice doing there, just — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered — Mehmet Murat ildan
I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" t — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I — Christopher Hitchens
There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and alloca — Jeffrey Tucker
There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich, but the more bread — Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum
The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy. — Clifford Cohen
Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love. — Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought
Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness. — Amit Kalantri
There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are san — Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands