David Harsanyi Quotes

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

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

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

This administration seems intent on accumulating unchecked power.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

In the battle between democracy and totalitarianism the latter adversary will, without question, win and will control the world. The era of democracy is finished and the democratic system bankrupt. There is not room in the world for two different systems or for two different economies.

Even the most repressive regimes seek to maintain the fiction that they have the people’s interest at heart.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.