#dictators

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ↗

— Jan Masaryk

#dictators #good #last #look #minutes

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#democratic #dictatorship #fig #hide #leaves

You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators. ↗

— Brian Schweitzer

#dollars #healthcare #pay #sending #trillion

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#between #dictators #external #genuine #least

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#democracies #dictatorships #fight #forgiving #generous

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#against #dictatorship #exploited #revolution

. ثلاثون عاماً ظهر فيها الدش والمحمول والإنترنت واختفى الوطن.. ↗

— جلال عامر

#egypt #political #political

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#dictatorship #enough #imposed #individual #intelligence

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. ↗

— Bruce Coville

#control #dictatorship #information #tyranny #information

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. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#dictators #illiteracy #reading #censorship