Kayleigh McEnany Quotes

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

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

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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

… the tools of despotism and corruption

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

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

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.

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

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.