I'm a benevolent dictator.

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my…

— Edgar Mitchell

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

— Jaiprakash Gaur

In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a…

— Dambisa Moyo

“The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Peter's mother was grand, in her way. She managed to complain almost ceaselessly without ever seeming trivial or kvetchy. She was regal rather than…

— Michael Cunningham

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…

— H. G. Wells

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about…

— Selima Hill

I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen…

— Gary Numan

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary…

— James Madison

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.”

— sue monk kidd

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

— George Bernard Shaw

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is…

— Horace Mann

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

— William A. Dembski

“But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.”

— Sue Monk Kidd