Nawaz Sharif Quotes

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power.

From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

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.

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.

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.

The free world should not wait for dictatorial regimes to consent to reform.

Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

Finance capital curtails democratic rights, narrowing the scope of democracy and paving the way for the open and violent dictatorship of fascist rule.

We Africans continue to allow tyrannical regimes to impose themselves on us.

Since men must always assign a cause to all their misfortunes, the generally blame them on the evil intent of their rulers; … As always there are now many who fish in troubled waters, filling the minds of the commonality with the notion that things will go from bad to worse unless they appoint a head over them.

In times of crisis, we should have a period of 6 months of dictatorship to straighten things up, then return to democracy.

The end of some of the harshest dictatorships has not necessarily spelled a more free world. The extinction of the thing we despise is not giving rise to the democracy we hoped for.

This is a struggle between a struggling democracy and a vicious dictatorship, and I think we should take sides.

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.