Conviction Quote by George Washington

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

— Richard Griffiths

“Morally authoritarian movements are attractive to ugly, miserable, talentless people.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like a creeper…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Emma Goldman

An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.

— Alexander Lukashenko

“While this book makes a similar if more modest claim for the social significance of its own fundamentally ambivalent “sentiments of disenchantment” (an ambivalence…

— Sianne Ngai

Dictators are interesting, no?

— Martin Parr

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

— Joe Klein

“The art of government lies in finding ways to take advantage of such sentiments, not wasting one’s energy in futile efforts to destroy them;…

— Pareto Vilfredo

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.

— Alexander Lukashenko