Asking Quote by Karen Marie Moning

“Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in…

— Timothy Snyder

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

— Pseudonymous Bosch

“And mental states may be inferred from actions. The tyrant rarely sends a handwritten note requesting the elimination of an enemy.”

— Julian Barnes

Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control…

— Park Yeon-mi

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

— Adolf Hitler

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable…

— Samantha Power

“hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and…

— Martha N. Beck

“EXERCISE: THE WATCHER, THE DICTATOR, AND THE WILD CHILD”

— Martha N. Beck

“What is novel is a president who wishes to maintain, while in office, a personal security force which during his campaign used force against…

— Timothy Snyder

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…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but…

— John Steinbeck

“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the clear examples…

— John Popielaski