Best 163 quotes in «dictator quotes» category

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.

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 care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

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.

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?

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.

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.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

Since we don't have a tyrant or a dictator, we can't put people who are burning flag in jail. But Donald Trump is telling you what he thinks of 'em. He's not gonna do anything of the sort. This is where people go off the rails with Trump, with this literal business and so fort

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

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.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

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