Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

We find two great gangs of political speculators who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants but in reality dominate and plunder it.

From the first day to this sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

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.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

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.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

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.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

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.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

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.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.