Jamal Khashoggi Quotes

Repression or oppression never yet succeeded in crushing the truth or redressing a wrong.

Across the region, those rights that we take for granted are being claimed with joy by those who are prying loose the grip of an iron fist.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

What stands if freedom fall?

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

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

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

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

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.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

The free world should not wait for dictatorial regimes to consent to reform.

The price of freedom is less than the cost of repression.

The more rulers strive to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately are they resisted; …. laws directed against opinions affect the generous minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright; so that they cannot be maintained without great peril to the state.