John-boyne Quote by John Boyne

“Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.”

— Terry Goodkind

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there…

— J.K. Rowling

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“He created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do!”

— J.K. Rowling

“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats…

— Richard W. Sonnenfeldt

“Some of the most horrific dictators rose to power amidst chaos.” I”

— Donna Augustine

“If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“All those things happened before the reforms that ended bureaucratic practices. And those reforms made it possible for decisive men to take charge and…

— Andreas Christensen

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

— George Orwell

“Ego breeds ambition, and arrogance, and that breeds disdain for those who are weaker; it tends towards fascism.”

— A.K. Stone