Joseph Sobran Quotes

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

Every kind and degree of evil of which mankind are susceptible may be inflicted on them by their government.

Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name.

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.

Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

Communism means barbarism.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.