“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near”
Will Durant
“A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.”
William Orville Douglas
“A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.”
George W. Bush
“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”
Stephen Vizinczey
“I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator”
Richard Branson
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.”
Pope Benedict XVI
“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