The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.
Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes
If Big Brother (of Orwell’s 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he […]
Mussolini is a man possible only in a country that has no appreciation of real acting.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
He must fear many whom many fear.
Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit.
I give my vote to Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. nay more; I will not […]
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify […]
Who is all powerful should fear everything.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
