Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

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

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Our city finds itself in an uncomfortable place: on the frontline between freedom and auto_cracy.

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

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

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

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.

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.

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

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

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.