Svetlana Alliluyeva Quotes

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

Such is the terror--the crushing fear--which is inspired by one man over that multitude, which now submits to his decrees with a zeal, apparently as ardent, as it is certainly abject and submissive. There is not a complaint heard. The calm and dark waters of despotism are never disturbed by the slightest ripple. Not a breath of free thought or manly speech passes over them, but they lie dead and deep, into which every vestige of the people's liberty and freedom has sunk and disappeared.

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

Despotism is a long crime.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.