Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They would not allow other composers to write the music they wanted to write, and only a certain kind of music could be played.

It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship.

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.

To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.

Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of the Council of Europe.

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

In Spain, after the dictatorship, thanks to Pedro Almodovar, many artists put on the streets through art a big explosion of freedom.

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

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Unfortunately, the former rulers during the era of dictatorship indulged in massive corruption in Punjab, and the hard-earned money of the poor nation was mercilessly looted.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Libyans are deeply unsettled by Gaddafi and his regime's careless contempt for human life. The dictatorship is willing to employ any methods necessary to remain in power.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.