Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Even the most repressive regimes seek to maintain the fiction that they have the people’s interest at heart.

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

History’s most important lesson is that it has not been possible to make coercion compatible with the truth.

In despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down, with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight as bravely for slavery as for safety, and count it not shame but highest honor to risk their blood and their lives for the vainglory of a tyrant;

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

It was not the year of union rather the year of division and force and oppression and violence. The imamate became like the kingdom of Chosroes and the caliphate like the tyranny of Caesar.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.