J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

Dictatorship dooms labor. Labor dooms dictatorship.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Despotism is a long crime.

The limits of tyrants are proscribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

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

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

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

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.