Rudolph Rocker Quotes

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

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.

I will never abuse power if elected.... This country [Russia] can never again fall under the influence of a dictator.

Iran does not have a cuoture of passive citizenship despite the best efforts of its rulers, past and present, to produce one.

I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

I want to be dictator.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

Napoleon is always right.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.