A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should
mismanage the country.
Don Marquis
A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people
and carries it out.
-Huey P. Long
America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and
we've all heard plenty of both in our time.
-Stephen King
America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and
we've all heard plenty of both in our time.
Stephen King
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
-Noam
Chomsky
Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he
knows to be idiots.
H.L. Mencken
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a
free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these
inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin
Disraeli
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you
what you think it is you want to hear.
-Alan Coren
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.
-Winston Churchill
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude,
dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they
foster idiocy.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Elections give the illusion of freedom but are in fact a game among the
powers that be, this is why we talk of 'formal democracy.' Instead of
drawing forth the best energies of a people, this legal institution
hands actual control to very different forces, turning democracy into
another form of oligarchy and dictatorship.
-Karl Jaspers
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it
wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because
criticism was prohibited.
-Robert F. Kennedy
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for
its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We
would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to
this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and
dictatorially.
-E.B. White
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so
ancient it even extends to language.
-Oriana Fallaci
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated
government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive
can be strong.
-Wendell Willkie
It is not the bad dictators who made the world bad; it is bad thinking.
It is, therefore, in the realm of ideas that we will have to restore the
world!
-Fulton J. Sheen
My career is a fascist state. I'm the dictator, the chief of police, the
head of the army. Anybody who tries to interfere is put up against the
wall and shot.
-Michael Caine
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of
the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to
drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the
people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is
easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country
to greater danger. (At the Nuremberg Trials)
-Herman Goering
Of course we're unilateral. If we Americans had wanted to be ordered
around by English wig-tops, French functionaries, bossy Germans,
disorganized Italians, tin-pot Latin American dictators, and Ice Age
Siberian bureaucrats, we would have stayed where we were.
-P.J.
O'Rourke
People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which
dictatorships are made.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness
principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship.
-Karl
Popper
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral
economy.
-Theodore Dalrymple
Republicans say that Democrats want a huge, monolithic federal
institution that will compromise personal liberty and freedom by
controlling individuals' lives with intrusive policies and a dictatorial
agenda. Republicans, of course, believe that is the job of organized
religion.
-Dennis Miller
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
-Shimon
Peres
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
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer
decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions:
kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party
dictatorships, or modern corporations.
-Noam Chomsky
The necessary foundation of every authoritarian government is a public
that prefers to feel rather than to reason. Emotion is the wild stag
skillfully ridden by all dictators.
-Brian Ferguson
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the
movie set.
-Frederico Fellini
The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and
dictators... Provision should be made in all union constitutions for the
recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters
should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political
ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.
-Mary
Harris Jones (Mother Jones)
The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that
these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.
Karl Kraus
The ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than any
temporary failures of democracy.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
War is no longer made by simply analysed economic forces if it ever was.
War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators
who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief
in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed
to satisfy the people they misrule.
Ernest Hemingway
We should not allow the word 'democracy' to be utilized apologetically
to represent the dictatorship of the exploiting classes.
-Che
Guevara
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-Harry
S. Truman
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