American politics Quote by Steve Forbes

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

— Jaiprakash Gaur

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

— Alessandra Mussolini

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

— Friedrich Engels

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

— Ambrose Bierce

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

— Vladimir Voinovich

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

“The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State takes the…

— C.G. Jung

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

— Slavoj Žižek

“When a United States Senator after his election has to look up the principles of Marxism by which one-sixth of the world is governed…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald