Best 163 quotes in «dictator quotes» category

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 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.

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

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

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

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

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

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

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

Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

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?

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 .

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 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

The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

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.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

We thank God that our enemies are idiots.