Charles Inglis Quotes

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

I fear that, tired of anarchy, you may hope at the end for a return of oppression and that you may welcome the yoke of the first fortunate adventurer who shows up, who, far from consolidating your destiny, will only prolong your servitude

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

An attempt to scrutinize men’s thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

Citizens, we have reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, will successively devour all its children, and only produce despotism and the calamities which accompany it.

An oppressive government is worse than a man-eating tiger.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

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

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Despotism is a long crime.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

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.

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

The Chinese people are not a new kind of human nature. Human nature in China is the same as it is elsewhere. When you start in a tyrannical regime to hand out freedom there is no place to draw that line and expect that line to hold. And so it’s only a matter of time before this regime comes down

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.