Yulia Tymoshenko Quotes

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

The free world should not wait for dictatorial regimes to consent to reform.

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

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

A military government may make a nation great, but it cannot make them free.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

The major conflicts of our day are autocrats verses the village square.

The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

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

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

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.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.