Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.

This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out...

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their people after a coup d’état, and bound them to their...

Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that’s what he is!

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of...

Dictators are interesting, no?

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top...