Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Do you trust the government? No? In that case, let’s overthrow it tomorrow.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to dictators and Bin Laden.

A nation should not be a hostage to one man's thirst for power, and it won't. Belarusians have woken up. The point of no return has passed.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.

a government which goes counter to the will of the nation must be overthrown at once... It is dangerous to drive the people to despair and force them to demand by violence that which they as yet seek only by constitutional means.

The Chinese people are not a new kind of human nature. Human nature in China is the same as it is elsewhere. When you start in a tyrannical regime to hand out freedom there is no place to draw that line and expect that line to hold. And so it’s only a matter of time before this regime comes down

Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is difficult to dislodge.

Liberalism is but childishness, which is easily brought to reason; but revolution is a force, and one must know how to use it.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

This government must go. It is our duty to make sure that it does go.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut his head off.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.

I just long for the day I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lampposts and that they've got a proper government that represents the people of Saudi Arabia.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Revolutions of state, many times, make way for new institutions and forms; and often determine in either setting up some tyranny at home, or bringing in some conquest from abroad.

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

My job was to bring down the government, and I did that.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.