Dictatorship Government Quotes

#1. Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.

Wong Kar-Wai

#2. The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#3. The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

Gene Sharp

#4. I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

August Strindberg

#5. Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#6. I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

Shakira

#7. Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

Emil Ludwig

#8. The harder a government, such as a dictatorship, tries to maintain monetary policy autonomy, the more it must either limit the movement of capital into and outside of the country, or the more it must compromise exchange-rate stability.

Janet M. Tavakoli

#9. I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

Brenda Song

#10. I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#11. The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

Joseph Stalin

#13. When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

Joan Anderson

#14. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry Truman

#15. It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#17. We are in the energy dictatorship that calls itself the United States of America.

Steven Magee

#18. An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.

David Frum

#19. The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

Tom Anderson

#20. Did you have any plans to do anything?" Matt finally thought to ask Neil. "Besides the obvious, I mean." Neil wasn't sure if Matt meant Exy or Andrew.

Nora Sakavic

#21. [D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom.
-William F Buckley

William F. Buckley Jr.

#22. No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Clinton Rossiter

#23. Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms ... one man was the government of the United States ... Lincoln was a great dictator ... This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

Clinton Rossiter

#24. If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

Famke Janssen

#25. There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.

Alan Keyes

#26. Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

John F. Kennedy

#27. The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

Nora Roberts

#29. Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship ...

Dan Smoot

#30. It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song.

Eve Ensler

#31. Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.

Fred Reed

#32. It's hard to say anything that offends me. But you're welcome to try your best.

Michelle Madow

#33. Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

Harry Truman

#34. Isolated individuals, not members of such groups, usually are unable to make a significant impact on the rest of the society, much less a government, and certainly not a dictatorship.

Anonymous

#35. The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [ ... ] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

Albert Camus

#36. So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.

Gene Sharp

#37. They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

Rafael Correa

#38. We are here to change. We are here to grow, develop and unfold. We are progressive beings that have infinite capacity

Michael Beckwith

#39. Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#40. Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.

Laurence J. Peter

#41. Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

Pentti Linkola

#42. Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

J. William Fulbright