#dictators

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#born #brazil #communal #corrupt #democracies

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#claim #dictatorships #does #every #name

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#cult #dictatorship #glorification #gone #lengths

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ↗

— Alan Coren

#choosing #consists #democracy #dictators #hear

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#democracies #dictatorships #hate #i #place

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #century #dictatorships #latin #latin america

Dictators never invent their own opportunities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#invent #never #opportunities #own #their

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#basically #benign #change #dictatorships #even

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

— Plato

#arises #democracy #dictatorship #extreme #form