Tomas G. Masaryk Quotes

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

Dictators are interesting, no?

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

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

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

Every dictatorship creates thousands of smaller dictators who live on for decades.

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Despotism is a long crime.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

... a step in the direction of tyranny.

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

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.

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