“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.” IfsWayMindWellsPlayHandsStreetsChildhoodExampleBearsBeatsBaseballPolicePrisonDictatorshipAdolescenceRepression Author:Daniel Ortega
“In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.” PeopleChoicesEconomyMilitarySpeechPoliceElectionSlaveControlledDictatorship Author:Alex Jones
“Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, 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. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.” PeopleFirstsHumansLastsLawSpiritValuesChoicesBeliefGivenLinesChanceSecretDemocracySecurityWeaponsOrdinaryGunUltimateUniversalPoliceWesternSpreadTyrannyDictatorshipHuman SpiritOrdinary PeopleDefenceRule Of LawSecret PoliceWestern Values Author:Tony Blair
“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.” PeopleLawChoicesGivenChanceSecretDemocracyOrdinaryPoliceTyrannyDictatorshipDictatorOrdinary PeopleRule Of LawSecret Police Author:Tony Blair
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.” HeartLittlesHomeFearRoomsPowerfulPoliceIndependentSoldierThrownPanicDictatorshipDictatorMiceForbiddenStirringUnspokenPedestalIndependent ThoughtBayonets Author:Winston Churchill
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.” HumansMatterValuesLinesEnemyDemocracyWorstMilitaryBrotherCircumstancesBattlePoliceNo Matter WhatRemainsSlaveBetrayalMaskFascismDictatorshipBureaucracyFrontiersAdversariesSubordinatesProletariatProtectorHuman Values Author:Simone Weil
“So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.” PeopleIfsKnowsGovernmentExistenceSacrificeJudgingSourceDependsArmyPoliceDictatorshipCivil Service Author:Gene Sharp
“The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."” StatesDemocracyMilitaryWeaponsPoliceFighterControlledDictatorshipTanksSecond AmendmentRiflesRights And FreedomsBombersPro GunEqualizerRevolverPatriotic Gun Author:Edward Abbey
“Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.” ThinkingKnowsLooksLittlesBookUseProblemCoursesCompanyAirPoliceVictimHarmToneDescriptionDo You KnowTendernessDictatorshipMurdererUtopia Author:Juan Gelman
“By 2020 I regarded the USA government as an evil Nazi dictatorship.” GovernmentEvilPoliceUsaDictatorshipNazi2020GeorgeFloydRegarded Author:Steven Magee