David Clennon Quotes

Germany is a despotism, with mock constitutionalism. There is the dictature of capitalism represented by junkerdom, militarism, and police. All independent organizations of working men were forbidden.

The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democratic than any regime run by any clique the Chinese Communist Party's ruling elite has vomited up since the days of Mao Zedong.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

Dictators are interesting, no?

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

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

The most monstrous men a plea of power in the history of the world

This is Nero at his worst. The Constitution as we know it is gone.

If you give human beings power over others, their natural tendency is to be fascists.

A fascist helping defeatism

This is an fascist society. We have to change its authoritarian structure …. And in the process we have to let a lot of people get away with crimes.

… an apprentice dictator whose methods were similar to those used by Hitler, the policy of blackmail alternating with flagrant violations of international agreements.

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.

Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

Every dictatorship creates thousands of smaller dictators who live on for decades.

Politics without responsibility IS fascism.

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

Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.