Nur Muhammad Taraki Quotes

The whole administrative, judicial, and legislative machinery obeys a single will, the caprice of General Porfirio Diaz, who during his long administration has shown that the principal motive that guides him is to maintain himself in power and at any cost.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

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

This administration seems intent on accumulating unchecked power.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

As Republics have risen and fallen, a transition from party to personal government has preceded every failure since the world began.

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

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

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.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods!

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.