Dictatorship Quotes

After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Naturally the common people don't want war ... but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad..

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

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

A democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

We are a slack people but deeply destructive … I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

Pol Pot is very charming. ... His face, his behavior is very polite, but he is very, very cruel. Pol Pot does not believe in God but he thinks that heaven, destiny, wants him to guide Cambodia in the way he thinks it the best for Cambodia, that is to say, the worst. Pol Pot is mad, you know, like Hitler.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demogogues.