Dictator Quotes
434 Dictator quotes by 242 unique authors
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I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing.…
— Gary Ackerman
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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 that…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers…
— Charles Edison
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You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words…
— Winston Churchill
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Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of…
— Henry Flynt
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Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
— Bob Kerrey
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Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
— Erica Jong
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides,…
— Leon Krier
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The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So…
— Leon Krier
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Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made…
— Charlie Chaplin
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I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody…
— Paul Stanley
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Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
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Dictators are interesting, no?
— Martin Parr
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Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things,…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
— Jan Masaryk
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such…
— Frank Church
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It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or…
— James A. Garfield
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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?
— Charles de Gaulle
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Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who…
— Jimmy Carter
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a…
— Ace Frehley
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He…
— Lindsey Graham
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