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“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”

— George W. Bush

“Some of the most horrific dictators rose to power amidst chaos.” I”

— Donna Augustine

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

— Peter F. Hamilton

“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.”

— Anonymous

“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

“A corporate state run by dictators who call themselves servants of the people they enslave.”

— Jack Campbell

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

— Saul Bellow

“You only elect a dictator once.”

— Charles A. Cornell

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

“Almost like being in the nightmare, that same feverish blur of the world slipping off its axis, but this time he was the one…

— Patrick Ness

“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom. Repression is…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.”

— Amélie Nothomb