67 Quotes by Natan Sharansky

As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.

When did America forget that it's America?

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don’t say: Let’s stop fighting right now, because you’re not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.

When did America forget that it’s America?

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat’s regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don’t want your support until you make your country democratic.