Tony Blair Quotes

When I explain to people what was the situation in North Korea, they think, how can such a country exist? They know North Korea is bad in some vague way, not clearly. But when we explain it, they then wonder how can a whole country be modern-day slaves?

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.

Communism of every type and stripe brings with it an ideological straight jacket. Thought control, brain-washing, censorship, imprisonment, exile, mental and physical torture are the indispensable weapons of Communist rule.

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

China is a heaven compared to North Korea.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

Socialism means slavery.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Imagine your own daughters being sold into a life of rape and bone crushing labor.