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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ↗
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. ↗
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. ↗
As she sat alone in the apartment, the enormity of it all started to sink in. Any hope that the North Korean regime might change with the death of Kim Il-sung was quickly dashed. The power had passed to his son. Things weren't going to get any better. She heard her father's words replaying in her ears. "The son is even worse than the father." "Now we're really fucked," she said to herself. Only then did tears of self-pity fill her eyes. ↗
For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. ↗
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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. ↗
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country. ↗
