One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.Salman Rushdie
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.Salman Rushdie
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.Salman Rushdie
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.Salman Rushdie
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.John F. Kennedy
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.Abraham Lincoln
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.Ernest Hemingway
