Navi Pillay Quotes

Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

There is no reason for Egypt to be under martial law.

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Fidel Castro has killed more people than we even know …. Fidel Castro uses medicine and food to suppress his people.

We have more billionaires than any country but the United States. And Putin can imprison any one of them at a moment’s notice. Do you think he is poor?

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

There are no political prisoners, only imprisoned politicians.

Maintaining legitimacy in an authoritarian state is very difficult.

There is a terrible price the U. S. Government must pay when it associates itself … intimately with a repressive regime.

The real struggle in Pakistan is the systematic elimination of anyone who stands up to the country’s generals who have created a militarized Islamist state.!