#dictatorship

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

— Péter Zilahy

#dark-humour #dictatorship #novel #dictatorship

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

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

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#napoleon #age

Wir sind das Volk!" Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig macht, die uns bindet. In dem Augenblick aber, in dem wir unsere Angst als Angst benennen und Anpassung und Angst als Geschwisterkinder erkennen, sind wir möglicherweise bereit zu erproben: Können wir auch ohne sie leben? In genau diesem Augenblick wachsen uns jene Kräfte zu, die eine ganze Gesellschaft verändern können. ↗

— Joachim Gauck

#civil-rights #courage #democracy #dictatorship #empowerment

If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #dictatorship

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#choose #dictatorship #exist #fascist #i

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

#dictatorship #liberty #license #near

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#children #dictatorship #easily #grown-ups #how

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#communism #delusion #dictatorship #few #form