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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy. ↗

— Fatos Nano

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

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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

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I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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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

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