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If I could I would!" is the maxim of tyrants. ~ Lamine Pearlheart
Dictator quotes by Lamine Pearlheart
That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict. ~ Charles R. Chamberlain
Dictator quotes by Charles R. Chamberlain
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Dictator quotes by Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Then there was David, lording it up at Buckingham Palace, thinking he was king of the shit heap. That guy was definitely nuts, like every dictator that had gone before him. Nero, Caligula, Henry the Eighth, Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Margaret Thatcher, Colonel Gaddafi, that crazy North Korean bastard who was in Team America, Kim Jong whatever. ~ Charlie Higson
Dictator quotes by Charlie Higson
The hearts of the people are good, but it's the hearts of the dictators that are small. ~ Anthony T. Hincks
Dictator quotes by Anthony T. Hincks
President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation. ~ David Letterman
Dictator quotes by David Letterman
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. ~ George W. Bush
Dictator quotes by George W. Bush
Dictator is always stupid ~ Hadi Farnoud
Dictator quotes by Hadi Farnoud
Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units. ~ Carl Jung
Dictator quotes by Carl Jung
A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out. ~ Huey Long
Dictator quotes by Huey Long
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. ~ Aldous Huxley
Dictator quotes by Aldous Huxley
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause. ~ Samantha Power
Dictator quotes by Samantha Power
People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways? ~ Adolf Hitler
Dictator quotes by Adolf Hitler
I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. ~ Mitt Romney
Dictator quotes by Mitt Romney
Live it up and enjoy your years on this plateau for life is but a journey into the unknown to learn various lessons along the way to shape and mold our minds, hearts and lives. Take nothing for granted. Appriciate all that you have for one day it will not be there anymore. Don't focus on the past for you can't change what has happened in your life thus far. Focus on the future for you are the dictator of your life and only you can decide where you go from here. ~ Kenneth G. Ortiz
Dictator quotes by Kenneth G. Ortiz
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Dictator quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
One day I hoped some thoughtful historian would point out the close connection between the Mercedes-Benz motor car and Germany's favorite dictator and that the Lord would find a way to pay these bastards back for their help in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there. ~ Philip Kerr
Dictator quotes by Philip Kerr
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator. ~ Ordway Tead
Dictator quotes by Ordway Tead
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance. ~ Mary McCarthy
Dictator quotes by Mary McCarthy
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am' ~ Oscar De La Renta
Dictator quotes by Oscar De La Renta
You bloody little dictator,' he said. 'You're exactly like Kate. ~ Dorothy Dunnett
Dictator quotes by Dorothy Dunnett
In place of a view of the genome as a static blueprint that operates independently of experience and only up to the moment of birth, we have come to understand the genome as a complex, dynamic set of self-regulating recipes that actively modulate every step of life. Nature is not a dictator hell-bent on erecting the same building regardless of the environment, but a flexible Cub Scout prepared with contingency plans for many occasions. ~ Gary F. Marcus
Dictator quotes by Gary F. Marcus
He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself. ~ John Ralston Saul
Dictator quotes by John Ralston Saul
You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. ~ Tommy Chong
Dictator quotes by Tommy Chong
Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator? ~ Gary Johnson
Dictator quotes by Gary Johnson
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. ~ Adolf Hitler
Dictator quotes by Adolf Hitler
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dictator quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra) ~ Ronald Reagan
Dictator quotes by Ronald Reagan
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.' ~ Jack Reynor
Dictator quotes by Jack Reynor
Humanity is on the verge of digital slavery at the hands of AI and biometric technologies. One way to prevent that is to develop inbuilt modules of deep feelings of love and compassion in the learning algorithms. ~ Amit Ray
Dictator quotes by Amit Ray
The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise. ~ Ludwig Von Mises
Dictator quotes by Ludwig Von Mises
very early in Moderan the mighty Stronghold masters had solved for themselves the flesh-woman question, or, to be more precise, the wife-nuisance roadblock. And for that I honor them. I mean, my beamish hat is off to them, for that was QUITE a solving! We have no such problem, of course, in the essence times. If I don't like the beams of the woman I'm with, or if I like too much the beams of the woman I'm with and she won't reciprocate, I just signal back to the Love Dictator's office my discontent and he orders one of his little clerk mechanics to call the old beams home, and the Love Dictator then transmits me, personally, a new package. ~ David R. Bunch
Dictator quotes by David R. Bunch
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. ~ Alvaro Uribe
Dictator quotes by Alvaro Uribe
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery . ~ Samuel R. Delany
Dictator quotes by Samuel R. Delany
Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dictator quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to. ~ Laurence J. Peter
Dictator quotes by Laurence J. Peter
Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control. ~ Brandon Sanderson
Dictator quotes by Brandon Sanderson
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. ~ Edward Bernays
Dictator quotes by Edward Bernays
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. ~ Marjane Satrapi
Dictator quotes by Marjane Satrapi
Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do. ~ Rush Limbaugh
Dictator quotes by Rush Limbaugh
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives. ~ Alexander Lukashenko
Dictator quotes by Alexander Lukashenko
I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator. ~ Arthur Frommer
Dictator quotes by Arthur Frommer
Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have filled them with self-confidence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana-republic dictator. Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous. Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump. A ~ Yuval Noah Harari
Dictator quotes by Yuval Noah Harari
While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away. ~ Hassan Blasim
Dictator quotes by Hassan Blasim
Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded. ~ Lakhdar Brahimi
Dictator quotes by Lakhdar Brahimi
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
Dictator quotes by Saddam Hussein
THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he ~ Ben Jonson
Dictator quotes by Ben Jonson
A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. ~ Vladimir Voinovich
Dictator quotes by Vladimir Voinovich
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. ~ Colin Powell
Dictator quotes by Colin Powell
Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality ~ Adolf Hitler
Dictator quotes by Adolf Hitler
There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there. ~ M.F. Moonzajer
Dictator quotes by M.F. Moonzajer
We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. ~ Garry Kasparov
Dictator quotes by Garry Kasparov
I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Dictator quotes by Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators. ~ Lysa TerKeurst
Dictator quotes by Lysa TerKeurst
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ~ Jan Masaryk
Dictator quotes by Jan Masaryk
Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements. ~ Gene Sharp
Dictator quotes by Gene Sharp
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible. ~ Sacha Baron Cohen
Dictator quotes by Sacha Baron Cohen
I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it. ~ Craig Ferguson
Dictator quotes by Craig Ferguson
It's better to be a dictator than gay. ~ Alexander Lukashenko
Dictator quotes by Alexander Lukashenko
Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability. ~ Joe Klein
Dictator quotes by Joe Klein
Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak. ~ Nicholas Sparks
Dictator quotes by Nicholas Sparks
The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dictator quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? ~ Alfred De Musset
Dictator quotes by Alfred De Musset
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. ~ Adolf Hitler
Dictator quotes by Adolf Hitler
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. ~ Adolf Hitler
Dictator quotes by Adolf Hitler
Evil itself is a dictator, whether it's dressed up like a pompous little man with a moustache, or a bunch of faceless terrorists, or a fundamentalist state. That's what the devil is, you know. And it's precious difficult to combat. Or rather, it's not so much difficult, as demanding of great courage. Will, and wit. ~ Chico Kidd
Dictator quotes by Chico Kidd
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ~ Frances Perkins
Dictator quotes by Frances Perkins
He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dictator quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you are so unhappy you don't know how to accomplish anything, then to have control over your body becomes an extreme accomplishment. You make of your body your very own kingdom where you are the tyrant, the absolute dictator. ~ Hilde Bruch
Dictator quotes by Hilde Bruch
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. ~ Christopher Hitchens
Dictator quotes by Christopher Hitchens
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. ~ Charlie Chaplin
Dictator quotes by Charlie Chaplin
Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance. ~ Newt Gingrich
Dictator quotes by Newt Gingrich
The loyal dogs of a dictator are much more dangerous than the dictator himself because a dictator can bite you only through his supporters. Without his dogs, he is nothing! More's the pity, the world history is full of such loyal biters! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dictator quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.' ~ Conan O'Brien
Dictator quotes by Conan O'Brien
The military had been transformed, and with that, the Pentagon confidently turned its attention to the real Persian Gulf. A rogue dictator was threatening the stability of the region. He was virulently anti-American. He had a considerable power base from strong religious and ethnic loyalties and was thought to be harboring terrorist organizations. He need to be replaced and his country restored to stability, and if they did it right - if they had CROP and PMESI and DIME - how hard could that be? ~ Malcolm Gladwell
Dictator quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one ... I would hope. ~ Joanna Lumley
Dictator quotes by Joanna Lumley
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin. ~ Vladimir Putin
Dictator quotes by Vladimir Putin
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets. ~ Pete Doherty
Dictator quotes by Pete Doherty
There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property. ~ Beatrice Rose Roberts
Dictator quotes by Beatrice Rose Roberts
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. ~ Ben Stein
Dictator quotes by Ben Stein
One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable. ~ Mona Charen
Dictator quotes by Mona Charen
Never liked history much, at least as it was relayed to him in school. It sounded too much like a brochure, everything neatly laid out and painfully obvious in retrospect. Every war had its bullet-pointed causes; every megalomaniac dictator was so cartoonishly evil you wondered how stupid the people of the past had to be, not to notice. ~ Cassandra Clare
Dictator quotes by Cassandra Clare
The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch. ~ Jay Leno
Dictator quotes by Jay Leno
But we noted also in all these victoruous worlds a remarkable identity. For instance, in the loosest possible sense, all were communistic; for in all of them the means of production were communally owned, and no individual could control the labor of others for private profit. Again, in a sense all these world-orders were democratic, since the final sanction of policy was world-opinion. But in many cases there was no democratic machinery, no legal channel for the expression of world-opinion. Instead, a highly specialized bureaucracy, or even a world-dictator, might carry out the business of organizing the world's activity with legally absolute power, but under constant supervision by popular will expressed through radio. We were amazed to find that in a truly awakened world even a dictatorship could be in essence democratic. We observed with incredulity situations in which the "absolute" world-government, faced with some exceptionally momentous and doubtful matter of policy, had made urgent appeals for a formal democratic decision, only to receive from all regions the reply, "We cannot advise. You must decide as your professional experience suggests. We will abide by your decision. ~ Olaf Stapledon
Dictator quotes by Olaf Stapledon
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator ... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened. ~ Augusto Pinochet
Dictator quotes by Augusto Pinochet
People think because they employed you they're allowed to treat you like a dictator, or whatever the worse word for dictator is. And that's always been a problem for me. Opening the door for someone behind you is as important as designing a building. ~ Bill Murray
Dictator quotes by Bill Murray
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men. ~ Bob Hoskins
Dictator quotes by Bob Hoskins
We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it. ~ Clifford Cohen
Dictator quotes by Clifford Cohen
I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face. ~ Augusto Pinochet
Dictator quotes by Augusto Pinochet
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. ~ Wole Soyinka
Dictator quotes by Wole Soyinka
But we must be careful not to do our enemies' work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator - what logic is this? We ~ Robert Harris
Dictator quotes by Robert Harris
The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini. ~ E.L. Doctorow
Dictator quotes by E.L. Doctorow
Everybody would be a dictator if he could. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Dictator quotes by Bangambiki Habyarimana
And the God who ruled absolutely in the life and fortunes of the most powerful monarch of that time still rules in the fortunes and destinies of governments today. No government or dictator is so powerful as to be beyond the sway of His sovereign rule over all the nations of the earth. GOD ~ Jerry Bridges
Dictator quotes by Jerry Bridges
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. ~ James Buchan
Dictator quotes by James Buchan
My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator. ~ Mark Ronson
Dictator quotes by Mark Ronson
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger's undisclosed reason for the 'tilt' was the supposed but never materialised 'brokerage' offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China.... Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was 'a basket case' before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere. ~ William M. Arkin
Dictator quotes by William M. Arkin
I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Dictator quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out.So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out. ~ Stanley Baldwin
Dictator quotes by Stanley Baldwin
In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.' ~ Amy Poehler
Dictator quotes by Amy Poehler
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