Emir Kusturica Quotes

We're not a democracy.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

I happen to be one of those people who do not believe in muIti-party democracy.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Democracy is slow … A king can always outrun a congressman.

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence democracy, and the other tyranny.

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

Any president we choose becomes a czar in Russia. I don't want czars anymore. I don't want to be a czar myself. I want to be a democratic leader.

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

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Democracy passes into despotism.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.