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absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes sole power over the state
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“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
“Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.”
“*In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.”
“Dictatorship rests on control of the military.”
“The dictatorships, whether Fascist or Bolshevist, have been able to conceal their innumerable defeats only by ruthlessly using both the gag and the lie.”
“The nation does not hold democratic elections.”
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