Pentti Linkola Quotes

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.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

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.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

… the meanest and worst of all forms of government

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.