Dictators Quotes
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you.
Stephen Vizinczey
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
William Somerset Maugham
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Charlie Chaplin
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.
Ralph W. Sockman
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky
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.
Joni Mitchell
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
Jorge Luis Borges
You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.
George Walker Bush
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
