Emil Ludwig Quotes

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

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

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

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

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Either force or corruption has been the principle of every modern government.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

It is doubtful that President Mubarak or the Saudi Royal family will allow elections that might sweep them from office.

All [political] parties, without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in the world who has resigned while still quite healthy.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.