Stephen Vizinczey Quotes

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

... the perfect dictatorship.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

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

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.

He [Stalin] is gone, but his shadow still stands over us today. It still dictates to us and we, very often, obey.

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

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

I am inclined to believe dictators. Not to is dangerous.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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 world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.