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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
- Pope Benedict XVI
When you fuse the two ideas of "nation" and "socialism," what you get is National Socialism.
- Dinesh D'Souza
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S. Truman
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S. Truman
Since 1973, the year of the military coup that changed so many things, situating has become a little more complex because in the first three minutes of conversation you also have to guess whether the person you're speaking to was for or against the dictatorship.
- Isabel Allende
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S. Truman
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
- Alice Walker
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
- Harry S. Truman
We can decide to live in response to the abundance of God and not under the dictatorship of our own poor needs.
- Eugene Peterson
All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea
- George Lucas
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.
- Aldous Huxley
You served your country. That was an honorable thing." "I wish it were that simple," he said. "I risked my life and had no idea what I was fighting for—a corrupt dictatorship that represented almost everything we're fighting against?
- Richard Paul Evans