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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.


Eliot Spitzer


#democratic #dictatorships #doomed #experiment #fail

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.


Ben Stein


#charlatans #dictators #engineer #equal #everyone

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.


Antonio Tabucchi


#doctrines #ideas #perfection #totalitarian

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." [From the Preface]


C.S. Lewis


#big-business #bureaucracy #corporations #corporatocracy #dictatorship

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors.


Gene Sharp


#resistance #home

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.


Gene Sharp


#elections #business

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.


Péter Zilahy


#dark-humour #dictatorship #novel #dictatorship

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.


George W. Bush


#dictatorship #easier #heck #lot #question

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.


Charlie Chaplin


#enslave #free #people #themselves

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.


Alvaro Uribe


#central #dictators #find #insurgents #latin






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