Anthony Burgess Quotes

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

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

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

Napoleon is a dangerous man in a free country. He seems tome to have the makings of a tyrant, and I believe that were he to be king he would be fully capable of playing such a part, and his name would become an object of detestation to posterity...

… an apprentice dictator whose methods were similar to those used by Hitler, the policy of blackmail alternating with flagrant violations of international agreements.

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.

Politics without responsibility IS fascism.

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power..

Hitler does not wait for congress.

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not frightening. I am not a bad person at all.

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.

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

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

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

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.