Be you Quote by Ai Weiwei

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not…

— Alexander Lukashenko

“Dictatorships are ramifications of the ignorant and misguided few , which are then imposed upon and suffered, by the many!.”

— Daryavesh Rothmensch

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats…

— Richard W. Sonnenfeldt

“Even dictators become dictators because somehow, deep in their hearts, they believe they've been chosen to save the world. Everyone is chosen. There lies…

— Eric Gamalinda

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

— Stanley Baldwin

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

— Paul Wolfowitz

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy…

— Alex Jones

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter…

— George Ayittey

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office

— Mohamed Nasheed