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Quotes About Dictator

of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
But both murders affect Lincoln deeply. In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
~ Susan Stebbing
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
~ Anthony Daniels
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
~ Ed Balls
The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.
~ Mirabeau B. Lamar
The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...
~ Noam Chomsky
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stalin never forgot or forgave. He once told a Russian writer that Ivan the Terrible had not been ruthless enough because he left too many enemies alive.
~ William Craig
Political correctness is actually a term coined by the Chinese dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong. By "politically correct," Mao meant adhering to the official position of the Communist Party, which the comrades referred to as "the party line.
~ David Horowitz
The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.
~ Smokey Robinson
In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'
~ Amy Poehler
We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.
~ Howard Dean
When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.
~ Charles Coughlin
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.
~ George W. Bush
Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.
~ Tim Kaine
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
~ Tom Cruise
Even the famously unsporty Hitler liked to carry a riding whip in his hand.
~ Jane Thynne
Every man the least conversant in Roman story, knows how often that republic was obliged to take refuge in the absolute power of a single man, under the formidable title of Dictator, as well against the intrigues of ambitious individuals who aspired to the tyranny, and the seditions of whole classes of the community whose conduct threatened the existence of all government, as against the invasions of external enemies who menaced the conquest and destruction of Rome.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
~ Alfred de Musset