20th century Quote by Dennis Prager

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

— Garry Kasparov

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims…

— Stephen Kinzer

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

— Seneca the Younger

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

— Reid Hoffman

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

— Tammy Baldwin

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and…

— George Ayittey

Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

— Timothy D. Snyder

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

— Reid Hoffman

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It doesn't matter when. Tyrants have been regarded as wicked since olden times, but the twentieth century is full of the tyrants of whom…

— Sōseki Natsume

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

— Emma Goldman