Dictatorship

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Charles E. Wilson
Society
Communism
Delusion
Dictatorship
Socialism
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
Henry A. Wallace
Age
Technology
Dictatorship
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman
Government
Dictatorship
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago
Adolescence
Beginning
Being
Dictatorship
Direction
Revolution
Marxism
Thinking
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Beginnings
Dictatorship
First
Nation
Newspapers
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Joseph Ratzinger
Goal
Dictatorship
Ego
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.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Dictatorship
First
Justification
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres
Democracy
Dictatorship
Television
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
Power
Dictatorship
End
Revolution
Order
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
Dictatorship
Revolution
Order
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Country
Dictatorship
Fight
Injustice
In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.
Trevor Nunn
Decision
Criticism
Dictatorship
Listening
Saying
Wrong
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
Ted Lindsay
Time
Dictatorship
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.
Bela Kun
Dictatorship
Influence
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
George F. Kennan
Dictatorship