Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats

It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.

Dictatorships must be feared to survive so they cannot bear to be mocked.