Economic Quote by Vaclav Klaus

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

Western companies (and governments) have deeply integrated themselves with an authoritarian regime without thinking through the consequences, and when push comes to shove, many…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control…

— Park Yeon-mi

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of…

— Ayn Rand

“Who controls the money controls the world”

— Henry Kissinger

“he warned that progressive accumulation of debt “is perhaps the NATURAL DISEASE of all Governments. And it is not easy to conceive anything more…

— Ron Chernow

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

— Hisham Matar

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“The only currency to satisfy the debt was their survival and to help others when circumstances permitted.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Governments had socialized the liabilities of the core institutions of the global financial system.”

— Martin Wolf

“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in…

— Tony Judt