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. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. O’Brien to Winston. Welcome to the 1984 Orwellian nightmare, where the Party simply wants power so that it can maintain it forever.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. O’Brien to Winston. Power means control and the Party is interested in complete control and domination of mankind.
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. – George F. Kennan
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship – it’s all one person speaking. – Junot Diaz
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. – Arthur Henderson
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. – Bela Kun
When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive. – Bassem Youssef
In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. – Federica Montseny
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. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. – Mario Vargas Llosa
We have gone through everything as a nation – partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy. – Fatos Nano
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. – Noam Chomsky
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro’s tyrannical dictatorship. – Lincoln Diaz-Balart
No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren’t about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country. – Paul Wolfowitz
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. – Wole Soyinka
My first encounter with Marx’s writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74. – Yanis Varoufakis
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. – Salvatore Quasimodo