Politics Quote by D.P. Prior

“That famous dictatorship, whose supporters believe that it is called for by the historical process and consider it an indispensable prelude to the dawn…

— Frantz Fanon

“The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man is the…

— Masha Gessen

“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom. Repression is…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

“Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.”

— Bryant McGill

“How could one want an equalitarian and free society to issue from an authoritarian organisation? It is impossible.”

— James Guillaume

“To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or regulations which…

— Orlando Figes

“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.”

— Jack Provonsha