Books Quote by Ismail Kadaré

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy…

— Fidel Castro

“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah , I felt…

— Christopher Hitchens

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

— Shimon Peres

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Noam Chomsky

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice.…

— George Papandreou

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the…

— Nikita Khrushchev

A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism.

— Ilkin Santak

“. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much…

— Rudolph Herzog

Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend.

— Ilkin Santak

Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland…

— Ilkin Santak

The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to…

— Adam Yauch