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Quotes About Dictator

Hitler's signature is ugly, as you would expect.
~ Ruskin Bond
Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
~ Benito Mussolini
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You begin following the news in the papers, just like your dad does. Germany is not alone in preparing for war. In 1936 Italy and Japan join with Germany to form the Axis Powers. Italy, under its dictator, Benito Mussolini, wages war in Africa. In Asia, Japan is invading China. In 1938 you read about the German Army's march into Austria. The next September you hear that 1.5 million German troops attacked Poland and claimed that nation for Germany.
~ Elizabeth Raum
En cuanto al diablo, sólo es el dolor de Dios; la cólera de un dictador cogido en su propia trampa. La historia contada del lado de los vencedores.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie; I'm the one that makes the picture, and then we all figure out how to realise it.
~ David Longstreth
The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.
~ Hisham Matar
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.
~ Soledad O'Brien
There is something about being able to look at this family on the film where a woman drops out of the sky, magically makes their father happy, makes the children happy, gives them all a purpose. And with great courage, they overcome a tyrannical dictator and go on to a happy, wonderful life.
~ Nicholas Hammond
It's important to remember that a dictator will not freely relinquish power after having hijacked the constitution and ruled with threats and promises. Sometimes it is necessary to put enough pressure on him that he leaves.
~ Juan Guaido
The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.
~ Steve Coogan
We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
~ Paul Bremer
Time is not my dictator," said the Queen Mother. "I dictate to time.
~ Sally Bedell Smith
Time is not my dictator," said the Queen Mother. "I dictate to time. I want to meet people.
~ Sally Bedell Smith
Trujillo podía hacer que el agua se volviera vino y los panes se multiplicaran, si le daba en los cojones
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Everybody here is a dictator of something or other. They're all office holders. That's what keeps them contented. But I'm the Supreme Dictator of all, and I'm elected once a year. This is a democracy, you know, where the people are allowed to vote for their rulers. A good many others would like to be Supreme Dictator, but as I made a law that I am always to count the votes myself, I am always elected.
~ baum l frank ii
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
~ Sharan Burrow
At dinner, Mr. Marten produced his elegant place cards and assigned us places with the arbitrary ruthlessness of a dictator.
~ Sarah Monette
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.
~ Philip K. Dick
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.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Then came Hitler.
~ Markus Zusak
In this chapter, we'll picture these rule-making and rule-breaking parts of you as humans. Tiny humans. We'll call them the Dictator and the Wild Child.
~ Martha N. Beck
Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.
~ Stephen Colbert
Grafton was silent, looking at nothing for a moment or two. Finally, he said, "Soetoro has been waiting for a terror strike so he could declare martial law, become a dictator, and fix all the things he doesn't like about America.
~ Stephen Coonts