Best 163 quotes in «dictator quotes» category

When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

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

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

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

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

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

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

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

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

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

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

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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