George Orwell Quotes

A totalitarian state will harmonize in Spain the operation of all the capabilities and energy in the country

You agreed with the Dear Leader or you died or ended up in Camp 913.

He [Rafael Trujillo] had his torture chambers. He had his political assassinations. But he kept law and order, cleaned the place up, made it sanitary, built public works, and he didn’t bother the United States. So that was fine with us.

The more brutal the dictator, the harder to oust.

With the suppression of all political parties, the bases were laid for the totalitarian state.

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power..

I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

No way Putin will let anyone take away his power. Even if all the people of Russia voted for me.

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

In Pakistan, there have been two real powers - one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

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.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

In a one-party system there is always a landslide.