I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Hitler was obviously a dictator. And he was Christian. And I think that he persecuted the Jews, there's no doubt about that.… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society:… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.” quote by Hassan Blasim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e9/hassan-blasim-14317_academy_while-i-was-studying-film-at-the-academy_1714157.jpg)
![“Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense then I will submit to her instead of being a tyrant and a dictator.” quote by Tony Gaskins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/tony-gaskins-12341_dictator_instead-of-trying-to-see-things-my-way-i_728414.jpg)
