Authoritarian Quotes

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

… preposterous little czar

This man [Adolf Hitler] has everything it takes to be a king. The born tribune of the people … the coming dictator.

You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

A democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak; and it is supplanted by oligarchy [rule by the few].

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes.

Booker T. Washington was a very vindictive man…. Staff would have to get his permission before they married.

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

I just long for the day I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lampposts and that they've got a proper government that represents the people of Saudi Arabia.

Brother Number One

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

... immoral, evil and a demagogue.

The most closed, control freak, administration I have ever covered.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Thank god I'm in England, because if I lived in any other country, it'd probably be the Philippines. Because with Rodrigo Duterte as the leader they couldn't really give me attitude on Donald Trump.

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

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

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.