Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so…

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.

— Frank Miller

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

— Propertius

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

“I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their "own" people and mounds…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Aldous Huxley

Dictators don't come from elections.

— Alexander Lukashenko

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

— Ruben Gallego

Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.

— Bob Menendez

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were…

— Carl Safina

America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security of the…

— Jon Stewart

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

— Sharan Burrow

You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps,…

— Steve Hilton

The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function.

— Nawaz Sharif

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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

— Brendan Myers