Dictator quotes
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Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
-- Adolf Hitler -
Please say this gas bill is just an estimate
-- Adolf Hitler -
The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
-- Alain Juppe -
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It's better to be a dictator than gay.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
-- Alvaro Uribe -
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Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
-- Anthony Daniels -
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
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I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
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.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
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Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
-- Bob Hoskins -
Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.
-- Brendan Sexton III -
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
-- Charles Stross -
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
-- Che Guevara -
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
-- Che Guevara -
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
-- Che Guevara -
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ...
-- Che Guevara -
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Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
-- Dora Russell -
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
-- Erica Jong -
A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
-- Evan Esar -
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set
-- Federico Fellini -
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
-- Fidel Castro -
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
-- Gene Sharp -
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
-- George Ayittey -
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
-- George Ayittey -
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The only good dictator is a dead one.
-- George Ayittey -
Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
-- Gregory Corso -
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
I'm a benevolent dictator.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
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A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.
-- Huey Long -
Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
-- Hugo Chavez -
The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.
-- Jalal Talabani -
The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.
-- James Lileks -
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When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
-- Jessica Mitford -
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
-- Joe Bob Briggs -
The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.
-- John T. Flynn -
Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.
-- John Wooden -
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Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
-- Lech Walesa -
President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
-- Lindsey Graham -
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In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.
-- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just -
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Dictators are interesting, no?
-- Martin Parr -
Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
-- Milton S. Eisenhower -
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Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office
-- Mohamed Nasheed -
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
-- Mohamed Nasheed -
We can call it Isratine.
-- Muammar al-Gaddafi -
All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.
-- Muammar al-Gaddafi -
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
-- Natan Sharansky -
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
-- Nelson Mandela -
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
-- Orson Scott Card -
I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
-- Paul Wolfowitz -
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The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.
-- Pete Seeger -
Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.
-- Peter R. Scholtes -
Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)
-- Pseudonymous Bosch -
If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.
-- Richard Griffiths -
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I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.
-- Rirkrit Tiravanija -
Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.
-- Saddam Hussein -
Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again
-- Saddam Hussein -
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
-- Theodor Haecker -
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We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
-- Todor Zhivkov -
Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk -
You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.
-- Tommy Chong -
Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
-- Tony Blair -
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I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.
-- Tony Gaskins -
A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.
-- Vladimir Voinovich -
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
-- Winston Churchill -
I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
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The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.
-- Zoran ?in?ic -
As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump.
-- Andre Naffis-Sahely -
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.
-- Denis Villeneuve -
American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
-- Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay -
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I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.
-- Jeremy Corbyn -
Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.
-- Bernard Lewis -
Joe Paterno was a dictator.
-- Rodney Erickson
