Dmitri Dudko Quotes

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

God help that country by informers led Where fear corrupts and where suspicions spread By looks and gestures, even to the dead.

Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts!

Such is the terror--the crushing fear--which is inspired by one man over that multitude, which now submits to his decrees with a zeal, apparently as ardent, as it is certainly abject and submissive. There is not a complaint heard. The calm and dark waters of despotism are never disturbed by the slightest ripple. Not a breath of free thought or manly speech passes over them, but they lie dead and deep, into which every vestige of the people's liberty and freedom has sunk and disappeared.

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

Witness the tragic condition of Russia. The methods of State centralization have paralyzed individual initiative and effort; the tyranny of the dictatorship has cowed the people into slavish submission and all but extinguished the fires of liberty; organized terrorism has depraved and brutalized the masses and stifled every idealistic aspiration; institutionalized murder has cheapened human life, and all sense of the dignity of man and the value of life has been eliminated; coercion at every step has made effort bitter, labor a punishment, has turned the whole of existence into a scheme of mutual deceit, and has revived the lowest and most brutal instincts of man.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

A functioning police state needs no police.

When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.

Nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.

Tyranny's disease, to trust no friends

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

A totalitarian society makes enormous demands on the courage of men, and a partially totalitarian society makes even greater demands because the general anxiety is greater.

I am inclined to believe dictators. Not to is dangerous.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Dissenters will become food for crocodiles.

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

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved in the context of retro-totalitarianism.

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.