Dictators Quotes

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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
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of… — Oriana Fallaci
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. — Christopher Hitchens
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed… — Herbert Hoover
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. — Victor Hugo
The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life. — Alan King
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. — Jaron Lanier
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say… — Joni Mitchell
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. — Benito Mussolini
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
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. — 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
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised… — Vladimir Putin
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
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

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