At present, even so dismal a figure as President Nixon is a hopeful sign – precisely because he is so dismal. If any other country were in as desperately precarious a state of confusion as ours, a dozen flambouyant Fuhrers would have sprung up to take it over. It is to America’s credit that no […]
Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes
The Sky has ordered me to govern all peoples.
It makes no difference whether government controls allegedly favor the interests of labor or business, of the poor or the rich, of a special class or a special race: the results are the same. The notion that a dictatorship can benefit any one social group at the expense of others is a worn remnant of […]
In 1952, Kenneth Arrow, a professor emeritus at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., proved that no voting system is completely free from counter-intuitive outcomes. Arrow looked at voting systems that satisfy two harmless sounding properties. First, if everyone prefers candidate A to candidate B, then A should be ranked higher than B. Second, voters’ […]
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a savior.
Who is all powerful should fear everything.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Dictatorship is a great adventure… which crumbles in misery and blood.
Is it credible that at the age of sixty-seven I am going to begin a career as a dictator?
When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
