Dictatorship is a great adventure… which crumbles in misery and blood.
Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes
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.
A proletarian dictatorship is never proletarian.
Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
I intend to open this country up to democracy, and anyone who is against that, I will jail, I will crush.
Dictatorship is like a great beech tree. Nice to look at but nothing grows under it.
So far, you (dictator Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia).and your government have chosen the easy way out for yourselves, and the most dangerous road for society: the path of inner decay for the sake of outward appearances; of deadening life for the sake of increasing uniformity; of deepening the spiritual and moral crisis of our society, […]
What is curious about 20th century dictatorships is that with their powerful means of repression they fear the slightest murmur of dissent. A careless word, a mistimed joke is enough to suggest heresy. This remains true under present day “political correctness,” but so far the penalties have been mild – opprobrium, loss of employment, and […]
The previous regime reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.
