Ksenia Sobchak Quotes

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

Within the Russian system, everything depends on the character of those few who hold full power in their hands. The position of the individual within present-day Russia has been described as follows: far-reaching economic security by sacrificing personal liberty.

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases

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.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Mobutu does not think he is God.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Despotism is a long crime.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.