Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote / Image

Quote image editor Robert R. Reilly

Back to previous page

“In a line worthy of Robespierre, Sayyid Qutb said that a “just dictatorship” would “grant political liberties to the virtuous alone.”26 Hassan al-Banna, whose bedside reading was al-Ghazali, also regarded the Soviet Union under Stalin as a model of a successful one party system.” — Robert R. Reilly

Quote 1080 x 1350 Instagram portrait
More
Platforms
Pure ratios
In a line worthy of Robespierre, Sayyid Qutb said that a “just dictatorship” would “grant political liberties to the virtuous alone.”26 Hassan al-Banna, whose bedside reading was al-Ghazali, also regarded the Soviet Union under Stalin as a model of a successful one party system.
— Robert R. Reilly