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Dictator Quotes

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

"Irrational, illogical, unpredictable - 24 years on, the world awaits Saddam's next move" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

Statement in Mexico in 1958. "Kaplan AP World History 2005". Book by Mark Bach, p. 240, 2004.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

"Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonio Gramsci (1978). “Selections from political writings (1921-1926)”

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

"Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy". news.bbc.co.uk. March 24, 2006.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

"Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.

"Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko: 'Better To Be A Dictator Than Gay'" by Lidia Kelly and Ben Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

Speech in April 17, 1989. "Human Rights Policies in Chile: The Unfinished Struggle for Truth and Justice" by Silvia Borzutzky, 2017.

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.

"The Dregs of Dictatorship". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2012.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

"An American Savage". Book by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144, 2003.

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

Said during detention in London, November 1998.