Alex Kozinski Quotes

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

… the inhuman communist police state tyranny

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.

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

The North Korean regime really can control people. I think they are the best dictator in the whole planet.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from.

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.