George Lucas Quotes

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

When you have an autocratic regime you have no guarantee that the regime will last beyond the autocrat.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Government by one man: He is called a lord if he inclines to a good and common end; a tyrant if he is inclined to pursue bad or merely personal ends.

An oppressive government is worse than a man-eating tiger.

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

If ... America is to become an empire, there is very little chance that it can avoid becoming a virtual dictatorship as well.

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

All [political] parties, without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

… the meanest and worst of all forms of government

That's how dictators get started.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry.

My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.