Dictator Quotes

434 Dictator quotes by 242 unique authors

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. — Benito Mussolini
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. — Benito Mussolini
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said,… — Conan O'Brien
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today,… — Shimon Peres
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. — Richard Perle
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. — Colin Powell
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right. — Lou Reed
I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No… — Mitt Romney
You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators. — Brian Schweitzer
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your… — Natan Sharansky
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Joseph Stalin
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for… — Ben Stein
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. — J. Michael Straczynski
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. — Kim Il-sung
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. — Lech Walesa
We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one… — Robin Williams
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be… — Wendell Willkie
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush… — Naomi Wolf
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. — Evgeny Morozov
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to… — James A. Baldwin
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill

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