Atomic bomb Quote by Mao Zedong

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass…

— George Ayittey

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter.…

— Daniel Webster

“The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would…

— Mal Peet

US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.

— Noam Chomsky

Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be…

— Gordon Tullock

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

— Nikita Khrushchev

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

— Simon Anholt

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as…

— Shimon Peres

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

— Gregory Corso

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those…

— Dario Fo

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

— Margaret Thatcher