Dictator Quotes

434 Dictator quotes by 242 unique authors

In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! — Marjane Satrapi
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. — Che Guevara
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? — Alfred de Musset
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… — Karen Armstrong
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown… — Aldous Huxley
Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way) — Pseudonymous Bosch
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The… — Bruce Chatwin
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes — Adolf Hitler
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties… — Katie MacAlister
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. — Joseph Campbell
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his… — Ludwig von Mises
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality,… — Gilles Deleuze
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent… — A. J. Jacobs
I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it. — Craig Ferguson
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the… — Graham Greene
I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled… — Karen Marie Moning
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all… — Marjane Satrapi
You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. — P.G. Wodehouse
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my… — Mahatma Gandhi
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has… — Alberto Manguel
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar,… — Orson Scott Card
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the… — P.G. Wodehouse

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