“I believe that China is using technology for the perfection of dictatorship and that their fundamental economic and political model is a major challenge to the US.”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.com
“This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.”— Gregory Allen Howard, Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, imdb.com
“The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.”— George R. R. Martin, Cersei Lannister, Lena Headey, imdb.com
“White Americans talk about democracy like it’s a bag of seeds you buy at Home Depot, sprinkle across your backyard before freedom grows fully bloomed from the soil, petals red and blue outstretched. They talk like all soil is the same. Like every seed comes with a 100% satisfaction sticker, guarante…”— Hazem Fahmy, sukoonmag.com
“Americans ask me why Arabs love dictators and I say abusive relationships are hard to get over. When Mubarak fell back in 2011, Cairo couldn’t help but cry, sent him a text message: اسفين يا ريس. Please come back. Virtually every Arab country has been under a brutal regime since the fifties. My coun…”— Hazem Fahmy, sukoonmag.com
“Fascism first causes, then thrives on, the chaos for which it presents itself as sole cure.”— William Gibson, twitter.com
“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“This is not a new world—it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated…”— Rod Serling, en.wikipedia.org
“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. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“It is a soft, forgiving culture. Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, still be considered for a national burial. Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in…”— Lee Kuan Yew, philstar.com