Dictator Quotes - Page 5

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to collapse. It's the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him.

Joe Paterno was a dictator.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.

Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.