Peter Thiel Quotes

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

If a free society is ever destroyed in America, it will be done in the name of one particular vision of liberty and freedom.

Which is better, to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

The ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than the temporary failures of democracy.

... timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

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