Katie Pavlich Quotes

A Study In Utopia and Dictatorship

Stalin's methods did not help.

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.

Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

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

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.

Joseph Stalin was a supreme egotist and sadist, capable of sacrificing everything and anyone for the sake of his own power and glory.

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.

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

I grew up with communism, and if you live through communism you don't love it.

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.

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.

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

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

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

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.

Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.

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

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.