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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell

Dictatorship Power Revolution Safeguard Makes Does End Establish Order Means

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo

Dictatorship Revolution Fact Becomes Right

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

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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Niels Bohr

Best Democracy Dictatorship Secrecy Weapon Openness Should

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance. Benazir Bhutto

Culture Law Dictatorship Gun Power Military Birth Rule Rule Of Law Intolerance Weapons Born Gives Concept Might Violence

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

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. George Orwell

Dictatorship Revolution Safeguard Makes Does Establish Order

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman

Government You Dictatorship Efficient

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. Benazir Bhutto

People Desperation Welfare Political Dictatorship Responsibility Neglected Extremism Hopelessness Religious Only Environment Where Social Fuels Create Social Responsibility Basic Flourish

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. Will Durant

Liberty Dictatorship License Becomes Near

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. William Blum

Democracy Dictatorship Propaganda Violence

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. Mikhail Gorbachev

Government World Dictatorship Will Accept Domination

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity. Asma Jahangir

Dignity Oppression Dictatorship Lose Our Out Speaking

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all. Ferdinand Marcos

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The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal. Pope Francis

Money Dictatorship Old Worship Faceless New Economy Calf Cult Goal Truly Heartless Any Lacking Human Golden Which Found Image

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power. Vernon Howard

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If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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

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