Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Every kind and degree of evil of which mankind are susceptible may be inflicted on them by their government.

In the Middle East there are two methods of control: mass repression and mass bribery. In Syria they use mass repression; in Saudi Arabia, mass bribery. In Bahrain, a bit of both.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

For every folly of the princes, the Greek people suffer. Quidquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi.

Nearly one year on from his election, Donald Trump disregards the constitution, offends allies, and attacks minorities, the powerless, and those who are holding him to account.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

Dictators are interesting, no?

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

You are the President of this country. Come to Dhaka, come and see how our poor Bengali people have been mown down by your bullets, how the laps of our mothers and sisters have been robbed and left empty and bereft, how my helpless people have been slaughtered. Come, I said, come and see for yourself and then be the judge and decide

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

There is a terrible price the U. S. Government must pay when it associates itself … intimately with a repressive regime.

The major conflicts of our day are autocrats verses the village square.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

People in Cuba are victims.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.

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.