Roy Bennett Quotes

Doing politics in Venezuela is a risk, and you can pay with your life.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was arrested before he could start his own presidential campaign.

The exercise of politics is criminalized in Venezuela.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

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.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

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

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

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

You do not have people with placards out in the street on North Korea. I mean, that is a disgusting regime. The people are kept in a form of slavery, 23 million of them, and no one protests!

Civic murder … This free republic has killed five men for their opinions.

It is a crime now in my country to talk about the government's crimes.

Stalin is too brutal. His powers should be taken away from him.

Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal,” and everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure … hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship

Zaire's one-party system is the most elaborate form of democracy

Government violence can only do one thing and that is to breed counter-violence.