Lincoln Diaz-Balart Quotes

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

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

The North Korean regime really can control people. I think they are the best dictator in the whole planet.

In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.

Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference between him and a military government? Very little. I read his remarks on the effectiveness of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Well, yes. But then the AKP would have to ban all other political parties, close down all critical newspapers, burn the books critical of the regime and gas the Kurds to death...the final solution of the Kurdish 'problem.' Somehow I don't think he is about to do that.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

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

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

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.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

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.

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

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

Despotism is a long crime.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.