Democracy, freedom, human rights have come to have a definite meaning to the people of the world which we must not allow any nation to so change that they are made synonymous with suppression and dictatorship.
Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes
We have nothing against ideas. We’re against people spreading them.
The Sky has ordered me to govern all peoples.
It makes no difference whether government controls allegedly favor the interests of labor or business, of the poor or the rich, of a special class or a special race: the results are the same. The notion that a dictatorship can benefit any one social group at the expense of others is a worn remnant of […]
In 1952, Kenneth Arrow, a professor emeritus at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., proved that no voting system is completely free from counter-intuitive outcomes. Arrow looked at voting systems that satisfy two harmless sounding properties. First, if everyone prefers candidate A to candidate B, then A should be ranked higher than B. Second, voters’ […]
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a savior.
The scientific concept, dictatorship, means neither more nor less than unlimited power resting directly on force, not limited by anything, not restrained by any laws or any absolute rules. Nothing else but that.
He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government – that is despotism.
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest. But the habit of foregoing present satisfactions for the sake of the future advantages is irksome, and when passions are roused and prudent restraints of social behavior become […]
