Read through the most famous quotes by topic #dictators
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. ↗
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. ↗
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. ↗
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. ↗
As she sat alone in the apartment, the enormity of it all started to sink in. Any hope that the North Korean regime might change with the death of Kim Il-sung was quickly dashed. The power had passed to his son. Things weren't going to get any better. She heard her father's words replaying in her ears. "The son is even worse than the father." "Now we're really fucked," she said to herself. Only then did tears of self-pity fill her eyes. ↗
For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. ↗
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