Mohamed Nasheed quotes

“Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office”
-- Mohamed Nasheed

Source : "The Dregs of Dictatorship". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2012.

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“there is no Plan B because there is no Planet B”
-- Mohamed Nasheed

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“The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship”
-- Mohamed Nasheed

Source : "The Dregs of Dictatorship". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2012.

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“At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact”
-- Mohamed Nasheed

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“We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.”
-- Mohamed Nasheed

Source : "From underwater, Maldives sends warning on climate change". edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2009.

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“Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.”
-- Mohamed Nasheed

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“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”

“I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone,”

“Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.”

“Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay”

Source : "Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko: 'Better To Be A Dictator Than Gay'" by Lidia Kelly and Ben Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”

“I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.”

Source : Speech, July 1987.

“I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.”

Source : Speech in April 17, 1989. "Human Rights Policies in Chile: The Unfinished Struggle for Truth and Justice" by Silvia Borzutzky, 2017.

“Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.”

“The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.”

“Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship”