When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

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.

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.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

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

It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

No dictatorship can be sustained within the context of an information revolution.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.