Quotes About Dictators

[pacifist]

Quotes About Dictator

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.


Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 - 1964)

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.


Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: While England Slept, 1936 Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-- very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
- Stanley Baldwin
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you.
- Stephen Vizinczey

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

That is very true. But the average Pakistani has become used to more "freedom" under Musharraf than any other "democratic" government. That is why, at this point, there has been no mass uprising against the GoP. Most of the protesters are lawyers, politicians and political workers. The masses will be content as long as they are able to get along with their lives reasonably well.

This article in the Daily Times was quite interesting.

Pakistan’s two worlds​

* Pervez Musharraf’s crackdown on lawyers has oddly left little trace on Lahore, where residents continue to travel, shop and party.

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: “I arrived in Lahore from Mumbai on Sunday night. All flights were operating normally, no matter the state of emergency. On Monday I was driven around Lahore. I saw only bustling shops and bazaars. No closed shops, no drawn shutters,” writes Saskia Sassen in the Guardian.

She said when she stepped back into her international hotel and watched the major western news channels, available only via satellite, she saw extremely violent police repression of protesting lawyers.

It is becoming evident that the geography of conflict and repression in Lahore is extremely specialised. It involves only certain spaces and certain groups: lawyers, opposition members and media. And this was all the western media were focused on, stated the Guardian.

In its day of greatest violence, Lahore turned out to contain two separate worlds: that of violent repression and a larger, bustling, diffuse world of daily life. A thousand is a lot of arrested lawyers, but it can drown in a city of 7 million, especially when the local media have been closed.

The first time these two worlds intersected was Monday evening, at the conclusion of a talk at Lahore University of Management Sciences. The prominent lawyer Dr Parvez Hassan who was to host the post-talk dinner had been arrested only a few hours earlier. And three professors who were meant to come had also been arrested.

One would not have known this just by driving back through the city that night. The streets were alive with people. Restaurants were open. Clubs were booming. Nor would you have known this driving through Lahore the next morning, after the most violent day in the city’s recent history. Police were standing in front of the stunningly beautiful old buildings that house the courts and lawyers, but behind them was only silence, and traffic was moving as if nothing had happened there the day before. Nothing much was happening, of course, because most lawyers were in prison - in this context the equivalent of being disappeared. Their arrests had barely left a trace on the city, wrote Sassen.

At the National College of Arts, there was another intersection of the two worlds inhabiting Lahore these days. Asaf M Khawaja, one of the members of the audience at a talk there was asked what he thought about the two-worlds image for Lahore. He blurted out that his father, Khawaja M Asif - from the political party of Nawaz Sharif, the opposition leader not allowed to return by Gen Musharraf a month ago - had been arrested Saturday night, an hour after the state of emergency was declared.

All this in a city that in the past repeatedly was the centre of political confrontations. Tariq Ali was active in the communist movement in the 1960s. In the 1970s Lahore saw raw bloody protests, and the street rose against the popularly elected government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who rigged the 1976 elections even though he would have won.

Lahore’s fabric felt the strains of shop shutdowns, accompanied with the traders and lawyers marching in the streets, with much violence. It was Lahore’s high court building that saw the first full-scale protest in Pakistan against the March 9 sacking of the Supreme Court’s chief justice by Gen Musharraf.

Are we moving to a new type of repression? A niche repression, akin to the niche markets that segment consumer power? With niche repression the street will not rise, the traffic will keep flowing, the airlines will keep flying and the shops will keep selling.

 

[Majnun]

They often try to sensationalize, often purposefully against Pakistan (ie: with people like Bhutto, against people like Musharraf).
During the Lal Masjid episode, I remeber on BBC, they had a video of Musharraf in which he was talking of the people trapped in the mosque and in one part he said,"Logo ki jaan bachana hai" and they translated it as "They must be killed, they must be killed."

 

[Interceptor]

"What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will folow wherever I lead ." All the politicians including the once mighty Mr.Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging"

PAKISTAN - A DREAM GONE SOUR

Zia-Ul-Hag

The lowest traitor on earth.

 

[Spring Onion]

The lowest traitor on earth.

and the Highest ones have made it to come back after deal with the remains if the lowest

 

[Interceptor]

and the Highest ones have made it to come back after deal with the remains if the lowest

You mean BB and NS, you shouldn't believe all what you hear and see, their come back is their constitutional right. No deal is required to do this job.

 

[Spring Onion]

You mean BB and NS, you shouldn't believe all what you hear and see, their come back is their constitutional right. No deal is required to do this job.

Indeed their come back is their constitutional right but why on earth they did not use this right before and remained silent all these long years of Musharraf rule ??

you see intercepter that is the main question that these politicians do not work for democracy of country for own intrests.
As far dictators well if they do its understandble as "they are not democratic".

I understand the sentiments of your kind of people who have deep affiliations with personalities and specific political parties,

But me being a person who purely believes in people who are slightly different and further i do not believe in politicians as they failed to get united and failed to prove themselves during last 60 years everyone acted according to their intrests if once they got united it would have been different.

You know dear if a Dictator acts like a traitor or brutal person it dosnt hurt much but when people like BB. NS, Shujaat or other politicians loot the country run away and than come back and

Say we will never sit with the General and boycott election but the very next day they jump deseperatly to file nomination papers, than it does lowers their status and tarnish their image.

Just look at a person like Aitizaz Ahasn he today filled nomination papers for NA-26 and PP-146 seats.
doesnt he has the courage to refuse to conetst polls under a General.
(As BB,NA and others dont have guts to do that but i was thinking he might has some:]

Now you would say they do so for not letting the field empty for General and PML(Q)

I consider this phrase silliest as
if all the political parties join hands and refuse to contest polls than even if PML(Q) does contest, it will have no weightage and the world wont accept these polls.
But alas our unworthy politicians