Fareed Zakaria Quotes

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Dictatorship dooms labor. Labor dooms dictatorship.

He [Rafael Trujillo] had his torture chambers. He had his political assassinations. But he kept law and order, cleaned the place up, made it sanitary, built public works, and he didn’t bother the United States. So that was fine with us.

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

Dictators are interesting, no?

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.

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

People always suffer for what governments have done.

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

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

Despotism is a long crime.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.