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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.


Barbara Amiel


#america #apartheid #course #dictators #latin

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.


William Beveridge


#among #citizens #cultivate #democracy #dictators

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.


Benazir Bhutto


#better sense #comfortable #country #democracy #dictatorship

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.


Aung San Suu Kyi


#anything #avoid #because #blatant #could

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.


Oriana Fallaci


#dictators #i #islamic #islamic world #khomeini

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.


Lincoln Diaz-Balart


#am #castro #dictatorship #embargo #i

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


#conflicts #criticism #decision #dictatorship #earlier

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 #ii #injustice

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.


Georgios A. Papandreou


#been #change #country #dictatorships #difficult

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#dictatorships #economic #economic security #exist #freedom






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