Best 163 quotes in «dictator quotes» category

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!

The main reason for the people who support a dictator is that their character perfectly match with the character of that dictator! They both have a mean personality!

The mass only follows, regardless of what any naive thinker proclaims, because the mass as I said earlier, is not yet wise enough to take their own decisions. They despise manipulation consciously, yet subconsciously they crave for it. That is why they have so many gods in the first place. They just love the idea of somebody else deciding things for them, and it gives them a kind of comfort.

The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfaces” or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,” and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.

The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.

The rulers of the oppressive governments do not know the wonderful flowers that bloom in the deserts despite the most difficult conditions! Goodness, beauty, hope flourish even in the land of Satan!

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.

There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!

There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!

The sheep think the shepherd is sacred ...And the dog is protecting them from the wolves.actually, shepherds and dogs eat more sheep ... not wolves.

…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?” ‘Dictator,’ Robert Harris

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" Cicero, Orator, 46 BC By way of 'Dictator' by Robert Harris, 2015

To have 'order', an atmosphere of 'positivity' must be subtly inserted. When you are mass of maneuver, mediocrity never gives up anything voluntarily without some sort of exchange.

We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt. People are forever thinking that the unthinkable can't happen. If it doesn't exist in thought, then it can't exist in life. And then, in the blink of an eye, in a moment of danger, a figure who takes power from our weak desires and failures emerges like a rib from sand. Jean de Men. Some strange combination of a military dictator and a spiritual charlatan. A war-hungry mountebank. How stupidly we believe in our petty evolutions. Yet another case of something shiny that entertained us and then devoured us. We consume and become exactly what we create. In all times.

…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?

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

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

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

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

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

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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

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

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

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.

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

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