If Lenin’s widow does not behave, we will appoint someone else as Lenin’s widow.
Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes
Dictators are people who attempt to accomplish by calculated brutality and aggression what they lack the intelligence and magnaminity to consumate.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you.
Dictatorship is like a great beech tree. Nice to look at but nothing grows under it.
So far, you (dictator Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia).and your government have chosen the easy way out for yourselves, and the most dangerous road for society: the path of inner decay for the sake of outward appearances; of deadening life for the sake of increasing uniformity; of deepening the spiritual and moral crisis of our society, […]
What is curious about 20th century dictatorships is that with their powerful means of repression they fear the slightest murmur of dissent. A careless word, a mistimed joke is enough to suggest heresy. This remains true under present day “political correctness,” but so far the penalties have been mild – opprobrium, loss of employment, and […]
The previous regime reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
