Authoritarianism

“Today, in Venezuela, information is criminalized.”

“The root cause of the World Economic Herald incident is the backwardness of China’s political and media system.”

“At the beginning of the 1980s, even a picture of an ordinary alleyway could qualify as classified information.”

“A fost o evoluţie... Ceea ce trăiam, ceea ce vedeam în România, sistemul politic, frica... Un ansamblu de elemente.”

“Unión sin libertad es despotismo. La libertad y la unión será la Confederación de las Repúblicas.”

“It is very important to do this in the spirit of truth-seeking and a refusal to yield to the arguments of the regime.”

“닭의 목을 비틀어도 새벽은 오고야 만다.”

“Yo controlo 11 presidentes y 11 Congresos, cuando ellos se van, yo sigo aquí.”

“They think entirely in terms of power. There's nothing else but power and control in their system.”

“I believed that a coalition government would help Taiwan move from an authoritarian regime to a full-fledged democracy.”

“The Government may imprison me, it can fling hundreds and thousands into jail and concentration camps, but it cannot and it will not suppress the demand for freedom.”

“Cada momento en que nosotros hacemos periodismo de forma independiente estamos fortaleciendo el campo de la libertad y estamos debilitando el poder de la dictadura.”

“The most important thing journalism can do in a dictatorship is to tell the truth.”