Sir Thomas Inskip Quotes

A dictator ... must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

To a certain extent, all dictatorships are alike. From Stalin's Soviet Union to Mao's China, from Ceauşescu's Romania to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, all these regimes had the same trappings ... But Kim Il-sung took the cult of personality to a new level. What distinguished him in the rogues' gallery of twentieth-century dictators was his ability to harness the power of faith. Kim Il-sung understood the power of religion.

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

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.

I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument — the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American

Dictators don't come from elections.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Our age has seen the birth of totalitarian systems and forms of tyranny which would not have been possible in the time before the technological leap forward.

You can't be a dictator any more; anyone who tries to play the part of God will stumble.

Ideas are dangerous; and the traffic in them has been the concern of all dictators.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Government by one man: He is called a lord if he inclines to a good and common end; a tyrant if he is inclined to pursue bad or merely personal ends.

Such is the terror--the crushing fear--which is inspired by one man over that multitude, which now submits to his decrees with a zeal, apparently as ardent, as it is certainly abject and submissive. There is not a complaint heard. The calm and dark waters of despotism are never disturbed by the slightest ripple. Not a breath of free thought or manly speech passes over them, but they lie dead and deep, into which every vestige of the people's liberty and freedom has sunk and disappeared.

Nasser is an Arab Mussolini.

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

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.