Alice Eve Quotes

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

The difference between being out of step with a dictator and being out of step with the democratic majority is practically negligible. The important thing is to be in step.

… socialism is not a system for redistributing wealth but a system to control people and competitors

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

A functioning police state needs no police.

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.

The statists want to control the economy.

We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

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.

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. But there are different degrees of obedience, and it is not every degree that is commendable. Only an unmitigated despotism demands that the individual citizen shall obey unconditionally every mandate of persons in authority.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

Now we are going to have to be a government of men rather than a government of law.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

With the suppression of all political parties, the bases were laid for the totalitarian state.