{"quotes":[{"text":"I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["dictatorship","irony","socialism"],"id":309,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","capitalism","constitution","democracy","democratic","dictatorship","governance","government","happiness","human","india","inspirational","laws","mankind","military","ministers","motivational","parliament","philosophy","progress","public-sector","slavery","socialism","system","tyranny","wisdom"],"id":2009,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a 'warrant for genocide' forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["activism","al-qaeda","antisemitism","dictatorship","freedom-flotilla-ii","gaza","gaza-war","genocide","hamas","hezbollah","human-rights","israel","israeli-palestinian-conflict","middle-east","palestine","politics","protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion","symbolism"],"id":6195,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and penal code, the liberté, égalité, fraternité and the second of May 1852—all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a magician. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for a moment, in order that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: Everything that exists has this much worth, that it will perish.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["itarian","itarianism","bourgeois","brumaire","cipolla","constitution","coup-d-etat","dictator","dictatorship","dynasty","fascism","france","french-republic","louis-bonaparte","magician","mario-and-the-magician","monarchy","mountebank","napoleon","press","republicans","revolution","socialism","spell","suffrage","third-republic"],"id":8439,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"When Putin or any wealthy corrupted dictator can decide who is the US President, while Obama or the regular democratic authorities don't have the same power to decide who is the Russian or Chinese president, then the problem is not about Donald Trump, not about The Person,rather it is structural gap related to the Democracy and Dictatorship in deep substance and concept, and should be discussed, reflected, thought, spoke and solved from this very respect, not from drawing daily cartoons for Trump's hairstyle!","author":"Waseem Kanjo","tags":["democracy","dictatorship","putin","russia","trump","usa"],"id":17663,"author_id":"Waseem+Kanjo"},{"text":"If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!","author":"Mahatma Gandhi","tags":["christian","dictatorship","gandhi","politics","privacy","religion","secularism","social-welfare","state"],"id":25487,"author_id":"Mahatma+Gandhi"},{"text":"If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["democracy","democracy-in-america","dictators","dictatorship","dictatorships","fascism","fascism","fascism","fascism","fascismo","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nation","nations","nations","nations","trump","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":32234,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people.","author":"Jim","tags":["civil-war","dictatorship","freedom"],"id":34955,"author_id":"Jim"},{"text":"A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","ity","boss","brotherhood","catch-line","catchphrases","decision","democracy","dictatorship","employment","government","hierarchy","human-psychology","inspirational","king","knowledge","man","money","motivational","movie-dialogue","movies","owner","partnership","philosophy","politics","power","script-writing","scriptwriting","share","sharing","subordination","tagline","wealth","wisdom"],"id":42824,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["dictator","dictator","dictator","dictatorial","dictatorship","dictatorships","fate","fool","ignorant","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nation","nations","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":43004,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":125,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}