Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

The end of some of the harshest dictatorships has not necessarily spelled a more free world. The extinction of the thing we despise is not giving rise to the democracy we hoped for.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

Empire and liberty.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.