Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

I would not like a king who could obey.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Even military juntas want respect.

If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free.

I am the law. I am over the slave owners that used to be over me. I am their mayor.

I have no power, no independence.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.