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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship." »George Orwell, 1984
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"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." »Harry S Truman
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"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship." »Harry S Truman
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"The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters." »Fidel Castro
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"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, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship." »George Frost Kennan
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"They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage." »Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
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