Totalitarian Dictatorship Quotes

#1. A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

Robert Payne

#2. The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#3. People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

Julian Fellowes

#4. My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

Tom Hicks

#5. 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

#6. The first time I had money, I was extravagant, but then you realise it's not just about that. If I lost it all tomorrow, it wouldn't be me that's hurt, it would be my babies. It would be more about people's opinion of me that would concern me.

Rebecca Ferguson

#7. Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Gene Sharp

#8. I have walked the earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.

E.J. Copperman

#10. Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Ai Weiwei

#11. I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.

Ted Cruz

#12. Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.

Tobias Wolff

#13. Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Matt Nix