Dictator Quotes

434 Dictator quotes by 242 unique authors

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own. — Charlie Chaplin
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I prefer… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect. — Richard Griffiths
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must… — Winston Churchill
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself. — W. Somerset Maugham
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real… — Ralph Washington Sockman
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when… — John Steinbeck
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak. — Edna Ferber
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight… — Don DeLillo
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon.… — Jimmy Reid
Joe Paterno was a dictator. — Rodney Erickson
The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly… — Criss Jami
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it. — Vance Havner
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years. — S. Robson Walton
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen… — Thomas Beecham
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand,… — Chiang Kai-shek
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror. — Theodor Haecker
We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. — Garry Kasparov
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! — Isabella Rossellini
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. — Antonio Tabucchi
I'm a benevolent dictator. — Harvey Weinstein
And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the… — Bob Balaban
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. — Joe Bob Briggs
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. — Tammy Baldwin

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