Quotes About Dictator

Thomas Edison hailed him as the "genius of the modern age"; Gandhi, as a "superman." Winston Churchill pledged to stand by him in his "struggle against the bestial appetites of Leninism." Newspapers in Rome, host to the Vatican, referred to him as "the incarnation of God." In the end, people who had worshipped [Benito Mussolini's] every move hung his corpse upside down next to his mistress's near a gas station in Milan.

The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of enlightenment or stupidity of the voting majority.

Whatever God thought about it, the old dictator's ghost was not so easily exorcized after all.

Quando un rivoluzionario non è un poeta finisce per essere un dittatore o un burocrate, un traditore dei propri sogni...

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

You don't know that. And now we never will." "We're agents of the United States government, not some Third World dictator's private security force. That is not the way we work. We don't have

Everyone has a dream sensing liberation. Even the strictest dictator would want freedom.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law

We cannot live in a world that thinks it can fuck with America. Because once every piss-ant dictator, rebel, warlord, and terrorist thinks he can fuck with America, he will!

Dr. Soekarno was always exactly what he was in the beginning, a whizz-bang demagogue, an opportunist, just another little dictator. U.S. officialdom never tires of backing that type. Nor does U.S. officialdom take sufficient note of the writing on the wall, such as: Down With All Whites. I wonder what the phrase looks like in Vietnamese.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, for example, who more than two millennia later gave his name to the American city of Cincinnati, is supposed to have returned from semi-exile in the 450s BCE to become dictator and lead Roman armies to victory against their enemies before nobly retiring straight back to his farm without seeking further political glory.

Stalin would ultimately prove the most successful warlord of the conflict, yet no more than Hitler

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

No good end exists for any dictator!

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!

When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

The world is always ruled by a maniac. - Baba Yaga

On both counts, that meant a confrontation with the United Fruit Company, an American firm based in Boston. Known to Central Americans as el pulpo (the octopus) because of its all-encompassing tentacles, in 1899 United Fruit had obtained a 99-year concession over a vast tract of jungle from Guatemala's then dictator – and with it, the right to finish and operate a railway to the Caribbean coast.

When a new dictator takes over a country, one of the first things he does is seize or close the newspapers. Apathy isn't as heavy-handed as a dictator. But it can get the same job done.