#dictators

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#dictatorship #fear #freedom #government #independent-thought

La libertà è uno stato di grazia e si è liberi solo mentre si lotta per conquistarla. ↗

— Luis Sepúlveda

#chile #dictatorship #freedom #freedom

الحكاية أسلوب معروف قرّب..جرّب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب أسلوب معروف لا تشرّق مني ولا تغرّب بالوصفة دي تعرف تحكمهم وتلملمهم من أي طروف إعمل قديس واحفظ أحوالهم واتشرب وباركهم ..بس املاهم خوف!! حاور..داور..ناور.. املاهاحلقات ومحاور حط الأعصاب في التلاجة بالراحة لحد ما تهلكمهم.. واعمل انك عامل معروف.!! هدد بالضرب بلاش تضرب أسلوب ماركة ضحكة عقرب يتعبوا..ويكلوا..ويملوا يتسرسبوا واحد.. والتاني ماشي في ضله وانت افضل شوف افضل لنهاية الشوط كله واللي يشكلك شكله مرة بحزم..ومرة بتحسيس أسلوب معروف البشر الخاطي.. والقديس!! ↗

— عبد الرحمن الأبنودي

#freedom #freedom

Wenn wir uns der Verfolgung des freien Geistes während der Diktatur besinnen, werden wir die Freiheit jedes Gedankens und jeder Kritik schützen, so sehr sie sich auch gegen uns selbst richten mag." [Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages] ↗

— Richard von Weizsäcker

#democracy #dictatorship #freedom #persecution #politics

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently. ↗

— Herta Müller

#fear #freedom #totalitarianism #freedom

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #individual-worth #men

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. ↗

— Tony Blair

#anywhere #chance #choice #choose #democracy

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. ↗

— William Blum

#dictatorship #propaganda #violence

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#dictators #i #islamic #islamic world #khomeini

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#against #dictatorship #exploited #revolution