Dictators Quotes · Page 3

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

— Masha Gessen

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

— Ben Elton

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

— Bob Hoskins

“Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.”

— Terry Goodkind

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

— Dagobert D. Runes

“fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.”

— Bobby Adair

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

— George Ayittey

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a…

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate…

— Mona Eltahawy

“Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true…

— Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

— Mona Eltahawy

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

— Pramila Jayapal

“More congenial to me than dictators Are rickshaw-runners. If they break my neck It will be by accident, Not as a matter…

— William Kean Seymour

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

— Alvaro Uribe

Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay…

— Noreena Hertz

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice…

— Jimmy Reid

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by…

— Donald Trump

We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn,…

— Brendan Myers

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,…

— George Ayittey

One of the dark truths about dictators - and it applies to Gaddafi - is that on some level, they love their…

— Hisham Matar

The total eclipses of the sun are very special and have been associated with wars, famines, floods, unprecedented climate changes and the…

— Walter Mercado

If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you…

— John McCain

“Some of the most horrific dictators rose to power amidst chaos.” I”

— Donna Augustine

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

— Charles Stross

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

— Bob Hoskins

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Evgeny Morozov

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

— Elliott Abrams

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

— George W. Bush

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Lech Walesa

“I guess that if you're afraid of a little opposition, then you're not the person who you portrayed yourself to be.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

America does not stand with dictators, and we never will and we shall never.

— Ruben Gallego

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

— Rand Paul

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

— Antonio Tabucchi

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

— Dennis Prager

There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.

— Alexander Lukashenko

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

— Gene Sharp