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> [Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/democracy-consists-of-choosing-your-dictators-after-they-ve-told-you/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

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> [Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/democracy-consists-of-choosing-your-dictators-after-they-ve-told-you-2/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

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## Other authors on Dictators

- [Mona Eltahawy 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dictators/mona-eltahawy/)

## More by Alan Coren

> [There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/there-are-many-mysteries-in-old-age-but-the-greatest-surely-is-this/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/democracy-consists-of-choosing-your-dictators-after-they-ve-told-you/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/jacob-is-a-german-shepherd-i-have-never-understood-why-they-aren-t/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/strictly-speaking-the-land-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-dehydrated-sea/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/the-role-of-humour-is-to-make-people-fall-down-and-writhe-on-the/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/to-have-a-grievance-is-to-have-a-purpose-in-life/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/english-bohemianism-is-a-curiously-unluscious-fruit-inside-this/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/all-i-know-of-birds-to-this-date-is-that-sparrows-are-the-ones-that/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/i-sometimes-wonder-if-the-manufacturers-of-foolproof-items-keep-a/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/democracy-consists-of-choosing-your-dictators-after-they-ve-told-you-2/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/in-the-days-when-the-keepers-of-the-house-shall-tremble-and-the/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/i-wonder-sometimes-if-manufacturers-of-foolproof-items-keep-a-fool-or/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/television-is-more-interesting-than-people-if-it-were-not-we-should/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/having-lost-the-last-war-they-are-currently-enjoying-a/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

> [Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-coren/ethnically-the-germans-are-teutonic-being-made-up-of-vandals-gepidae/)

[Alan Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-coren/)

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