Muammar Qaddafi Quotes

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

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.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

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

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

Every dictatorship creates thousands of smaller dictators who live on for decades.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

Dictators are as scared of books as they are of cannon.

I will never abuse power if elected.... This country [Russia] can never again fall under the influence of a dictator.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.