N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes

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.

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.

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.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

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

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Dictators are interesting, no?

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

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.

Islam has been used in some countries, for instance Sudan, as a means for suppression and the installation of autocratic regimes. This, coupled with the censorship of moderate Muslim voices and increasing state patronage of religious scholars, has led to the propagation of a dogmatic form of divisive Islamic extremism, a form that rejects democracy, human rights, and good governance as devices of Western imperialism.

Totalitarianism liquidates its internal enemies or smashes opposition as soon as it arises; it uses methods that are simple and infallible because they are undemocratic. But democracy can defend itself from within only very feebly; its internal enemy has an easy time of it because he exploits the right to disagree that is inherent in democracy.

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.

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

Why is machine government a greater affront to democracy than a government of leaderless individualists prone to petty rivalry and endless bickering?

Socialism holds nothing but unhappiness for the human race. It destroys personal initiative, wipes out national pride ... and plays into the hands of the autocrats.... Socialism is the end of fanatics, the sophistry of so-called intelligentsia, and it has no place in the hearts of those who would secure and fight for freedom and preserve democracy.