I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.

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.

Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

In Pakistan, there have been two real powers - one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were destined to go to corporations like Halliburton and others that stood to gain from the privatisation of the formerly state-owned Iraqi economy.

You can't imagine a free market coupled with a dictatorship.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

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.

To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985, Bolsonaro, his whole life, has been uplifting not only the dictatorship itself but also the methods that the dictatorship used to stay in power, including torture.