Mona Eltahawy Quotes

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

He [Rafael Trujillo] had his torture chambers. He had his political assassinations. But he kept law and order, cleaned the place up, made it sanitary, built public works, and he didn’t bother the United States. So that was fine with us.

All the calamities we have experienced, and those which are yet to come, are the result of the consolidating tendency of this government; and unless this tendency be arrested, all that has been foretold will certainly befall us,—even to the pouring out of the last vial of wrath, military despotism.

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.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

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

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

I fear that, tired of anarchy, you may hope at the end for a return of oppression and that you may welcome the yoke of the first fortunate adventurer who shows up, who, far from consolidating your destiny, will only prolong your servitude

Napoleon is a dangerous man in a free country. He seems tome to have the makings of a tyrant, and I believe that were he to be king he would be fully capable of playing such a part, and his name would become an object of detestation to posterity...

… the greatest tyrant in the world; the greatest terrorist in the world.

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

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