Quotes About Dictator

The dictator himself cast his reforms as a restoration, the sweeping away of clutter. Yet clutter was the essence of the Republic

The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly, with his decades in power, along with his vain, flitting shopaholic wife, his hangers-on, and his goon squad, is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.

Economic institutions that create incentives for economic progress may simultaneously redistribute income and power in such a way that a predatory dictator and others with political power may become worse off.

But a dictator doesn't need supporters, he just needs followers

But a dictator doesn't need supporters, he just needs followers. And the best way to make people follow, at least in the eyes of guys like that, is to give them no choice in the matter.

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion

Not until four centuries had elapsed was Oliver Cromwell by furtive contracts with a moneyed Israelite to open again the coasts of England to the enterprise of the Jewish race. It was left to a Calvinist dictator to remove the ban which a Catholic king had imposed.

Seorang diktaktor memiliki suatu partai di belakangnya yang selalu siap mengambil kekuasaan. Sukarno tidak punya. Sukarno tidak memiliki organisasi yang mendukungnya. Seorang diktaktor memerintah dari tahtanya. Soekarno tidak berada di tengah rakyat. Sukarno adalah rakyat. Tidak, kawan, aku bukan Hitler. Jika benar bahwa seorang pemimpin yang dikaruniai daya tarik dan wibawa untuk menggerakkan orang banyak itu seorang diktaktor, biarlah dikatakan aku seorang diktaktor yang berbuat kebajikan.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

When you are so unhappy you don't know how to accomplish anything, then to have control over your body becomes an extreme accomplishment. You make of your body your very own kingdom where you are the tyrant, the absolute dictator.

History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War, but in Libya he oversaw a campaign of genocide. The

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

One day I hoped some thoughtful historian would point out the close connection between the Mercedes-Benz motor car and Germany's favorite dictator and that the Lord would find a way to pay these bastards back for their help in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there.

Every dictator in history, from Philip of Macedon to the Tyrant of Asia, claimed to be—and probably was, in his beginnings—motivated solely by benevolence.

We need a dictator who is a genius, if we are to arise again.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

We would all be a tyrant if we could.

I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.