Joy Reid Quotes

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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

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.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

this monster, this Colossus of Despotism ... a deep laid scheme to enslave us.

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

Stalin is too brutal. His powers should be taken away from him.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Standing armies are the oppressive instruments for governing the people.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

That's how dictators get started.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.

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.