- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictatorship Quotes
Firsthand reflections on life under authoritarian rule.
These quotes come from people who lived through authoritarian rule, describing how censorship forced entire societies to communicate in careful metaphors. Others recall risking personal safety just to protest for democratic change. Related themes continue in our Democracy collection.
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- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
- Envied
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020