Dictators Quotes

Dictators don't come from elections.

— Alexander Lukashenko

Dictators are interesting, no?

— Martin Parr

“Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!”

— Bill Maher

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

— Charlie Chaplin

How many liberators really want to be dictators?

— Dead Kennedys

War: the stupidest of all the human stupidities.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Corruption empowers and enriches dictators.

— Tom Malinowski

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

— John Wooden

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

— Masha Gessen

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

— Joe Bob Briggs

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

— Ben Elton

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

— Bob Hoskins

“Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.”

— Terry Goodkind

Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.

— Natan Sharansky

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Ben Stein

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

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

— Fidel Castro

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

— Chen Guangcheng

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators,…

— Lindsey Graham

We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly…

— John F. Kerry

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

— Yanar Mohammed

“This is not even the stuff dictators are made of, but this is the kind of madness which is often not found…

— Margery Allingham

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

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,…

— George Ayittey

One of the dark truths about dictators - and it applies to Gaddafi - is that on some level, they love their…

— Hisham Matar

The total eclipses of the sun are very special and have been associated with wars, famines, floods, unprecedented climate changes and the…

— Walter Mercado

If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you…

— John McCain

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive…

— George W. Bush

“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

“Or say we have two rival dictators in a death grudge. Assuming ED289/290 develops nicely in pill form, allow me to slip…

— George Saunders

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all…

— Winston Churchill

“NO DIVINE BOVINE ! The clumsy creature currently inhabiting the White House is a distinctly dangerous animal. Part boneheaded raging bully, part…

— Alex Morritt

“The road to fascism and dictatorship is paved with apathy, hopelessness, frustration, futility, and despair in the masses of people. It is…

— Saul D. Alinsky

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it…

— Victor Hugo

“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,…

— Madeleine K. Albright

“You aime lots of stupid crap." While Hassan worked to make God hates baguettes Colin's mind raced like this: (1) baguettes (2)…

— John Green

“There is no leader who has remained in power for too long and has not morally decayed, who has not become involved…

— Mehmet Murat ildan