Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

I do not want to be recorded in history as the man who bequeathed a tyranny.

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

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

Mobutu was mainstream Africa. Every independent African Government was a one-party state at the time. None allowed opposition. Every one of them had rent-seeking political leaders. The only thing that set Mobutu apart was how ostentatious his theft was.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

The Chinese people are not a new kind of human nature. Human nature in China is the same as it is elsewhere. When you start in a tyrannical regime to hand out freedom there is no place to draw that line and expect that line to hold. And so it’s only a matter of time before this regime comes down

The ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than the temporary failures of democracy.

There is a very long history of oppression in the Arab world, particularly in the states he mentions: Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, as well as in Sudan and Tunisia. These regimes are not based on democracy and their legitimacy comes from military dictatorships or inherited systems. The basic right of an individual to voice his or her opinion is not granted in any kind of form in the Arab world.