Quote by Plato

“Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.”

— Terry Goodkind

“The Dictator must have living crowds and also a crowd of corpses.”

— Saul Bellow

“Even dictators become dictators because somehow, deep in their hearts, they believe they've been chosen to save the world. Everyone is chosen. There lies…

— Eric Gamalinda

“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.”

— Edmund Burke

“The only way I can keep clear of force is by justice. Far from being willing to execute his enemies, a real king must…

— T.H. White

“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats…

— Richard W. Sonnenfeldt

“I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

“The good people in our life are like unintentional bodyguards who give us cover, stop the bullets penetrating our armour and help keep us…

— Sam Owen

“I wanted him to be ruthless, I wanted him to be fearless, I wanted him to take the biggest risk possible for me and…

— Angela Richardson

“People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.”

— Andrew Sturm

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He…

— Winston Churchill