Garry Kasparov Quotes

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Dictators are interesting, no?

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

I am inclined to believe dictators. Not to is dangerous.

Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

I don't trust a system where Putin makes all decisions.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

... the perfect dictatorship.

The man whom events had elevated to the position of dictator tirelessly must have been aspiring to power himself, energetically pushing aside and crushing ruthlessly all who stood in his way

Dictators are the last to know.

I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

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

The army and the government needs a dictator.