Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

The parliamentary regime is a regime of parties

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

When we are reproached for exercising the dictatorship of party, we say, yes ... We stand by it and cannot do without it.

A Study In Utopia and Dictatorship

Mobutu does not think he is God.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

I am the government.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Politics are almost as exciting as war.

The delusion of the people is necessary to the dominant party. I see the extent to which that delusion has been already carried, and I see there is no length to which it may not be pushed by a party in possession of the revenues and the legal authorities of the United States

You cannot have an opposition party unless it is opposed to the people in power.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

My mind is appalled at the thought of a political party having control of all the details that go to make up the sum total of our lives. Think of it for an instant, that the party in power shall have all authority to dictate the kind of books that shall be used in our schools and universities, government officials editing, printing, and circulating our literature, histories, magazines and press, to say nothing of the thousand and one activities of life that a people engage in, in a civilized society.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position...

The good government of one man is the bad government of another

Parties perform, to some degree, at least three functions in a democratic government. They recruit candidates, mobilize voters, and assemble power within the formal government.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

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.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.