Dictator famous quotes

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Military #Enemy #Dictator

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
-- Adolf Hitler

#Military #Special #Dictator

Please say this gas bill is just an estimate
-- Adolf Hitler

#Bills #Dictator #Gas

The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
-- Alain Juppe

#Jobs #Risk #Dictator

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Dictator #Appeals #Tyranny

It's better to be a dictator than gay.
-- Alexander Lukashenko

#Gay #Dictator

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

#Memorable #Gay #Dictator

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
-- Alvaro Uribe

#Latin #War #Dictator

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
-- Anthony Daniels

#Men #Moral #Dictator

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Real #Dictator

I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Dictator

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Dictator #Stills

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Succeed #Election #Dictator

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

#Men #Law #Dictator

My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Faces #Dictator #Sour

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Use #Dictator #Props

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
-- Bob Hoskins

#Play #Dictator #Middle

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

#Long #Bidding #Dictator

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
-- Charles Stross

#Memories #Dictator #Amnesia

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
-- Charlie Chaplin

#People #Dictator

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
-- Che Guevara

#People #Dictator

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
-- Che Guevara

#Leader #Anarchy #Dictator

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
-- Che Guevara

#Men #Coward #Dictator

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ...
-- Che Guevara

#Dictator #Christ #Old Lady

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
-- Dora Russell

#Running #Society #Dictator

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
-- Erica Jong

#Sex #Creativity #Dictator

A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
-- Evan Esar

#Problem #Dictator #Empty

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set
-- Federico Fellini

#Dictator #Stills

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
-- Fidel Castro

#Doe #Matter #Dictator

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
-- Gene Sharp

#Thrones #Election #Dictator

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
-- George Ayittey

#Dictator #Continents

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
-- George Ayittey

#Firsts #Steps #Dictator

The only good dictator is a dead one.
-- George Ayittey

#Dictator

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
-- Gregory Corso

#Bombs #Dictator #Poet

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

#Democracy #Dictator #Judgment

I'm a benevolent dictator.
-- Harvey Weinstein

#Dictator #Benevolent

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.
-- Huey Long

#Men #People #Dictator

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
-- Hugo Chavez

#Gorgeous #Dictator #Socialist

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

#Iraq #Darkness #Dictator

The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.
-- James Lileks

#America #People #Dictator

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

#Dictator #Pope #Crime

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
-- Joe Bob Briggs

#World #Dictator #Instruments

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

#Dream #Lines #Dictator

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.
-- John Wooden

#Courage #Dictator #Coaches

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Fashion #Taste #Dictator

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
-- Laurence J. Peter

#Speech #Dictator #Print

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
-- Lech Walesa

#Long #Dictator #Should

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

#Leadership #President #Dictator

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

#Revolution #Dictator #Virtue

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

#Dictator #Ends #Dictatorship

Dictators are interesting, no?
-- Martin Parr

#Interesting #Dictator

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
-- Milton S. Eisenhower

#Firsts #Dictator #Disregard

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

#Office #Dictator #Dictatorship

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

#Years #Dictator #Stamps

We can call it Isratine.
-- Muammar al-Gaddafi

#Dictator

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.
-- Muammar al-Gaddafi

#Complaining #Dictator #Pregnant Women

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

#Links #Dictator #Problem

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
-- Nelson Mandela

#Way #March #Dictator

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

#Needs #Dictator #Ends

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
-- Paul Wolfowitz

#Dictator #Mets

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.
-- Pete Seeger

#Country #Firsts #Dictator

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.
-- Peter R. Scholtes

#Leadership #Dictator

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)
-- Pseudonymous Bosch

#Way #Dictator

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.
-- Richard Griffiths

#Disrespect #Dictator #Crime

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

#Benefits #Dictator #Socialism

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

#Leader #Dictator #Said

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again
-- Saddam Hussein

#Milk #Dictator

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
-- Theodor Haecker

#Thinking #Essence #Dictator

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
-- Todor Zhivkov

#Degrees #Dictator #Radical

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
-- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

#Lasts #Looks #Dictator

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.
-- Tommy Chong

#Balance #Dictator #Checks

Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
-- Tony Blair

#War #Chance #Dictator

I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.
-- Tony Gaskins

#Leader #Understanding #Dictator

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.
-- Vladimir Voinovich

#Real #Dictator

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
-- Winston Churchill

#Leadership #Dictator #Hungry

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

#Fashion #Dictator #Abstract

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

#Alive #Spirit #Dictator

As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump.
-- Andre Naffis-Sahely

#Crowns #Firsts #Dictator

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.
-- Denis Villeneuve

#Dictator #Sometimes #Subconscious

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
-- Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay

#Hands #President #Dictator

I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.
-- Jeremy Corbyn

#Writing #People #Dictator

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

#Thinking #Remember #Dictator

Joe Paterno was a dictator.
-- Rodney Erickson

#Dictator