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If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Topics: About Citizen Dictatorship Group Keep Matter Only Ordinary People Power Property Property Rights Really Rights Running Small Small Group Very Welfare Who Worry You

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Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.

~Carles Puigdemont

Topics: After Cement Constitution Democracy Deny Dictatorship Exploiting Government Introduced Means Our Right Spain Us Vote

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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference First Later Orders Take Time Vote Voting Waste You Your

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No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

~Charles E. Wilson

Topics: Any Communism Delusion Dictatorship Few Form Great Happier Initiative Instead Millions More Produce Prosperous Should Socialism Society Suffer Which

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We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Accept Dictatorship Saddam Safer Without World Would

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The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Away Benevolent Boss Come Dictatorship Directors Experience Films First Go Listen Lot Making Nonetheless Other Past People Totalitarian Truth Truth Is You

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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

~Corazon Aquino

Topics: Cannot Cells Democracy Dictatorship Eat Freedom Light Machinery Neither Political Power Prisoners Then True Turn You

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Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: About Because Being Democracy Dictatorship Discipline Freedom Germany Jazz Just Like Played Prevent Represent Russia Seemed States United United States Will Within

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Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

~Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Topics: About Almost Chaos Closer Coming Compromising Concern Democrats Dictatorship Get Leadership Like More Point Should Table Where

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My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: American Born Brazil Communal Corrupt Democracy Dictatorship Europe Existence Experiment Few Filthy Grew He His Husband Israel Lived Living Moved Out Socialist Spent Twenties Up Utopian Various Where While Years

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