Best 163 quotes in «dictator quotes» category

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 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

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?

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

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 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

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

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

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!

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 lead through fear; good coaches do not.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a 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.

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!

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

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.