Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

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.

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 more a regime claims to be the embodiment of liberty the more tyrannical it is likely to be.

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

… the mortal enemy of liberty

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.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Now comes the reign of iron.

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

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

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.