Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Quotes

I say that the most inefficient, wasteful self-government is worth more than the most efficient dictatorship.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

I will never abuse power if elected.... This country [Russia] can never again fall under the influence of a dictator.

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.

You don’t go from tyranny to democracy overnight.

A free Cuba, working for the well-being of the people, was the aim of many of the men who supported Castro, but when it became evident that one tyranny was being supplanted by another some of them began to feel again the urge for the real freedom they had hoped for and fought for. Whereupon, they deserted.

Colombians! I will not speak to you of freedom, because if I keep my promises, you will be more than free. You will be respected…. Besides in a dictatorship who can speak of freedom.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

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

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

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

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Power to the peaceful!

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

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.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.