#dictators

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#dictatorship #gandhi #politics #privacy #religion

الحكاية أسلوب معروف قرّب..جرّب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب أسلوب معروف لا تشرّق مني ولا تغرّب بالوصفة دي تعرف تحكمهم وتلملمهم من أي طروف إعمل قديس واحفظ أحوالهم واتشرب وباركهم ..بس املاهم خوف!! حاور..داور..ناور.. املاهاحلقات ومحاور حط الأعصاب في التلاجة بالراحة لحد ما تهلكمهم.. واعمل انك عامل معروف.!! هدد بالضرب بلاش تضرب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب يتعبوا..ويكلوا..ويملوا يتسرسبوا واحد.. والتاني ماشي في ضله وانت افضل شوف افضل لنهاية الشوط كله واللي يشكلك شكله مرة بحزم..ومرة بتحسيس أسلوب معروف البشر الخاطي.. والقديس!! ↗

— عبد الرحمن الأبنودي

#freedom #freedom

Wenn wir uns der Verfolgung des freien Geistes während der Diktatur besinnen, werden wir die Freiheit jedes Gedankens und jeder Kritik schützen, so sehr sie sich auch gegen uns selbst richten mag." [Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages] ↗

— Richard von Weizsäcker

#democracy #dictatorship #freedom #persecution #politics

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently. ↗

— Herta Müller

#fear #freedom #totalitarianism #freedom

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#government #wisodm #love

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #individual-worth #men

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. ↗

— Tony Blair

#anywhere #chance #choice #choose #democracy

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

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#die #hate #liberty #long #men

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#fascism #result