Mark Levin Quotes

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

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.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

Mobutu does not think he is God.

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

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

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

I am the government.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

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