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Dictator Quotes - Page 6

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 12, 1990.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

Source: www.politico.com

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

"Robert Duvall’s talks about his faith-themed film “Seven Days in Utopia” — and why he’s not into “message movies”". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. 2011.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

"A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

"'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.249, Random House

Centralized health dictatorship.

"Newt Gingrich: Health Care Reform Is ‘Centralized Health Dictatorship’" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2011.