Gloria Allred Quotes

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.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

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

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.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

The rule of several bad men does not last long, and easily decays to the rule of a single tyrant.

… the meanest and worst of all forms of government

The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

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

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.