Juan Guaido Quotes

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests.

Doing politics in Venezuela is a risk, and you can pay with your life.

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.

You are the President of this country. Come to Dhaka, come and see how our poor Bengali people have been mown down by your bullets, how the laps of our mothers and sisters have been robbed and left empty and bereft, how my helpless people have been slaughtered. Come, I said, come and see for yourself and then be the judge and decide

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

When 50 people come to a demonstration, they are faced by 1,000 soldiers. A demonstration of 5,000 people will be faced by 25,000 soldiers. I fear that blood be shed for no price. I want blood that is shed for a price.

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

The Fascists kill because they cannot argue.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

There are men—now in power in this country—who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression so long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

The Extermination of Regime Criminals Act

Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal,” and everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”

The orders said to decoy the emigrants from their position, and kill all of them that could talk. This order was in writing....

Our action will have to be very violent in order to crush a strong and well-organized enemy [the Republicans] as soon as possible. Hence, all leaders of political parties, societies or unions not pledged to our movement will be imprisoned. Such people will be administered exemplary punishment [usually shot] so that movements of rebellion or strikes will be strangles.

I command that all foreigners, men, women, and children, be summarily executed. Let not one escape, so that my empire may be purged of this noisome source of corruption, and that peace may be restored to my loyal subjects.