George Galloway Quotes

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself

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

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

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

The people are good; the government is not good.

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

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

Power tends to corrupt if you're there too long.

Democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people

Unjust rule never lasts continually over time

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.