The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Some authoritarians and dictators intentionally use starvation as a tactic of war. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Unlike most founding dictators—Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler—Mao did not inspire a passionate following through his oratory, or ideological appeal. He simply sought willing… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the Government… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they… — Yuri Orlov Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Dictators are not strategists in the way I normally use that term. All the dictator cares about is survival. That means constantly… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men. — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“You have too many gurus in this country. They have told you what to do, what to think, what to practice. They… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
