George C. Wolfe Quotes

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

As an institution becomes less and less democratic, the obligation to abide by its decisions diminishes.

Zaire's one-party system is the most elaborate form of democracy

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

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

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

The minority yields to the majority!

Democracy passes into despotism.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

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

We're not a democracy.

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

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.