Joshua Wong Quotes

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state beneath.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

Nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

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.

I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Totalitarianism liquidates its internal enemies or smashes opposition as soon as it arises; it uses methods that are simple and infallible because they are undemocratic. But democracy can defend itself from within only very feebly; its internal enemy has an easy time of it because he exploits the right to disagree that is inherent in democracy.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

A totalitarian state will harmonize in Spain the operation of all the capabilities and energy in the country

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.