The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.
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.
Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of the Council of Europe.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
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.
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
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.
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.
