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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.
"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.
Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
We've seen in the past, Justin Trudeau professing his admiration for the basic dictatorship of China.
To compare the United States of America - the beacon of the free world - to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
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.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.
Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.
In Pakistan, there have been two real powers - one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.
Unfortunately, the former rulers during the era of dictatorship indulged in massive corruption in Punjab, and the hard-earned money of the poor nation was mercilessly looted.
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.
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.
Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
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.
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.
