Top 25 Dictator Quotes of 136 - Page 2

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Federico Fellini

Dictator, Stills, Movie Sets

My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.

Augusto Pinochet

Faces, Dictator, Sour

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill

Leadership, Dictator, Socialism

Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Firsts, Newspapers, Dictatorship

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

Nelson Mandela

Way, March, Dictator

Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Karl Popper

Dictatorship, Always Wrong, Happens

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

Looks, Lasts, Dictator

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ifs And, Narrative, Dictatorship

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1719, Random House

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Karl Marx

Political, Revolution, Dictatorship

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1977). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Revolution, Dictator, Virtue

Speech fragment, 1794.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

Fatos Nano

Gone, Anarchy, Dictatorship

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

Evan Esar

Believe, Democracy, Dictatorship

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charlie Chaplin

Benefits, Politics, Dictator

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

William Gaddis

Power, People, Dictator

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

Liberty, Chaos, Dictatorship

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion, Taste, Dictator

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

Gregory Corso

Bombs, Dictator, Poet

Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Gene Sharp

Thrones, Election, Dictator

Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.6, Albert Einstein Institution

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Tom Tancredo

Democracy, Dictatorship, Implants

Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

We can call it Isratine.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Dictator

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

Ludwig von Mises

People, Want, Dictator

Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute