The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think that reality is divorced from former vice president Joe Biden who hob knobs with these Hollywood dictators. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function. — Nawaz Sharif Copy Share Image
Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“The source of desire to be driven by power and spread of influence makes its owner dangerous to its privileges, as it… — Sirio Berati Copy Share Image
I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a… — Rirkrit Tiravanija 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
When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true… — Elizabeth Lucye Robillard Copy Share Image
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Even dictators become dictators because somehow, deep in their hearts, they believe they've been chosen to save the world. Everyone is chosen.… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“First impressions are like South American dictators: overly powerful and unreliable.” — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.” — Andrew Crofts Copy Share Image
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already. — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
