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Quotes About Dictator

If a Chancellor is trying to push something through, he must be a man of power. And if he's smart, he knows when the time is ripe. In one case - the euro - I was like a dictator... The euro is a synonym for Europe.
~ Helmut Kohl
Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?
~ Rick Riordan
When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?
~ Rick Riordan
He likes women, children, dogs, really what can you fault?' Pamela wrote. 'It's just a shame he's a dictator with no respect for the law or common humanity.
~ Kate Atkinson
La ley ofrecía un panorama lúgubre. Convertiría a Hitler en un dictador. La represión, la intimidación, la violencia, la tortura y los asesinatos que Alemania había visto en las últimas semanas se convertirían en permanentes
~ Ken Follett
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
~ Junot Diaz
Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.
~ Newt Gingrich
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
~ William Somerset Maugham
The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.
~ Winston Churchill
It has been estimated that for the next twenty years an average of a million Russian people a year were executed by the Communist regime, which, for much of that time, would be headed by the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Joseph V. Stalin.29
~ Winston Groom
He is not a president who is voted into power via a democratic process. He is not a prime minister acting on behalf of some heavenly parliament, nor is He a CEO. God does not rule as a dictator, usurping authority and maintaining power through a reign of terror. No. He is King.
~ David Ruis
A bronze bust of some dictator or other, who had gone by the name of "Trump.
~ David Walliams
If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness.
~ Denis Villeneuve
I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth.
~ Ali Wong
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
~ George W. Bush
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.
~ Curt Weldon
Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.
~ Saxby Chambliss
Assad's suspected chemical weapons attack shows he is willing to go to barbaric lengths to hold onto power.
~ Ted Lieu
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
~ Park Geun-hye
Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator.
~ Richard Pratt
the United States helps topple the dictator Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, then what will it do on Thursday, when it finds that it has helped midwife to power a Sunni jihadist regime, or on Friday, when ethnic cleansing of the Shia-trending Alawites commences?
~ Robert D. Kaplan
If the United States helps topple the dictator Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, then what will it do on Thursday, when it finds that it has helped midwife to power a Sunni jihadist regime, or on Friday, when ethnic cleansing of the Shia-trending Alawites commences?
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have filled them with self-confidence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous. Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump.
~ Yuval Noah Harari