Best 163 quotes in «dictator quotes» category

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Every anarchist is a baffled 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 socialist is a disguised dictator.

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

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

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

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

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

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