Irvine Welsh Quotes

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

A transition from party to personal government has preceded every failure of a republic.

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.

Hitler does not wait for congress.

Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

[Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian government the way they did in the 1930s then we're likely to address or talk or do any of our other business in the way they did it in the 1930s.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

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

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

The army and the government needs a dictator.

... timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

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.

When you have an autocratic regime you have no guarantee that the regime will last beyond the autocrat.