Dictator Quotes

434 Dictator quotes by 242 unique authors

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it… — Milton Friedman
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones. — Gene Sharp
Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs! — Gregory Corso
If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are… — Stefan Molyneux
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set — Federico Fellini
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert… — Gerard K. O'Neill
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. — Winston Churchill
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this… — Pete Doherty
Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not. — John Wooden
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not. — John Wooden
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross… — Clare Balding
After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets… — Octavian Paler
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin. — Vladimir Putin
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who… — Wole Soyinka
There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking… — Michael Arrington
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He… — Noam Chomsky
A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit. — Unknown Author
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against… — Soledad O'Brien
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from… — Timothy Noah
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. — Robert Dallek
It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it. — Mo Ibrahim
We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure. — John F. Kerry

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