Silvio Berlusconi Quotes

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

Fidel Castro has killed more people than we even know …. Fidel Castro uses medicine and food to suppress his people.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure … hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship

… the inhuman communist police state tyranny

You agreed with the Dear Leader or you died or ended up in Camp 913.

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.

What we're trying to do is to look at the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Xi for who they really are.

It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

In its mad passion for power, the Communist State even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy. It supported and encouraged all the worst antisocial qualities and systematically destroyed the already awakened conception of the new revolutionary values

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.

From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories.

People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering.

We all know that Kim Jong-il is 'buy-yourself-a-handgun' crazy. It's pretty much a given.

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.

We've seen in the past, Justin Trudeau professing his admiration for the basic dictatorship of China.

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.

This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.