Norodom Sihanouk Quotes

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

Had he been victorious, Hitler himself could hardly have demanded more.

It is difficult to resist the conclusion that the twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws.

Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.

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

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

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

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

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

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes.

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases