Best 163 quotes in «dictator quotes» category

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

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

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

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

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

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

I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.

I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

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

Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

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

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

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

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

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.

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

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

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.

One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

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

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

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.

Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

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.

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