Dictators Quotes

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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. — Lech Walesa
We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one… — Robin Williams
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be… — Wendell Willkie
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush… — Naomi Wolf
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. — Evgeny Morozov
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! — Marjane Satrapi
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
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
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
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
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
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones. — Gene Sharp
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
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. — Winston Churchill
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

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