Dictators Quotes

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
Bob Balaban

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Dr. William Ralph Inge

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
Joe Bob Briggs

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
Antonio Tabucchi

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Barbara Amiel

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
J. K. ROWLING

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
Harold H. Greene

Referring to Caesar: He must fear many, whom many fear. Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent.
Laberius Decimus

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

In none of these countries [Russia, Italy and Germany] was it possible to make to the people such an appeal as went home to the heart of our people, an appeal based on Christianity or ethics ... The whole outlook in the dictator countries was so completely different from ours that for a long time people here could not understand how it was possible for these nations not to respond to the same kind of appeal as that to which our people responded. But they were beginning to realise it now...The only argument which appealed to the dictators was that of force.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.







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