Dictatorship
[Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s] orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Dictatorship, Direction, Famous, Killing, Losing, Powerful, Solitude, War
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.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Dictatorship, Famous, Inspirational, Manipulation, Power, Revolution, Safeguard, Totalitarian philosophy
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. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Dictatorship, Famous, Inspirational, Persecution, Power, Revolution, Torture
I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.
Author: Margaret WalkerTopics: Country, Dictatorship, Famous, Fascist, Inspirational, Meaningful, Terrible
If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Dictator, Dictatorship, Easier, Famous
All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people’s democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Accumulated, Chinese, Decades, Democratic, Dictatorship, Experience, Famous, People, Reactionaries, Right, Speak