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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
We've seen in the past, Justin Trudeau professing his admiration for the basic dictatorship of China.
My duty is to call for free elections because there is an abuse of power, and we live in a dictatorship.
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.
Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.
Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.
On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.
In Spain, after the dictatorship, thanks to Pedro Almodovar, many artists put on the streets through art a big explosion of freedom.
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.
To compare the United States of America - the beacon of the free world - to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of a dictatorship. He didn't want to listen.
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.
Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.