Dictators Quotes · Page 4

“Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.”

— Andrew Crofts

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

— Margaret Thatcher

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

— Howard Jacobson

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

— Joe Klein

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

— Jan Masaryk

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

— Joel Edgerton

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

— Marjane Satrapi

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

In Iraq, we did have dictators, we did have times of war but it never reached the point where one person, or…

— Yanar Mohammed

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition…

— Ben Stein

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

— Chen Guangcheng

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the…

— Fidel Castro

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.

— Mona Eltahawy

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

— Alvaro Uribe

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance,…

— Rudy Giuliani

Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the…

— George Orwell

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a…

— Barry Goldwater

“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is…

— Richard W. Sonnenfeldt

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't…

— Frank Capra

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who…

— Hisham Matar

Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to…

— Burhan Sonmez

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

America cannot rely on dictators and despots for our energy.

— John E. James

Exaggeration of the national values is the character of dictators.

— Ilkin Santak

“Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.”

— Stephen Colbert

“You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.”

— P G Wodehouse

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Gene Sharp

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

When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

— F. Sionil Jose

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with…

— Mona Eltahawy