Ksenia Sobchak Quotes

Despotism is a long crime.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

… the mortal enemy of liberty

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power..

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Dictators are interesting, no?

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

An oppressive government is worse than a man-eating tiger.

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

All the calamities we have experienced, and those which are yet to come, are the result of the consolidating tendency of this government; and unless this tendency be arrested, all that has been foretold will certainly befall us,—even to the pouring out of the last vial of wrath, military despotism.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

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.

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.