Dictator Quotes - Page 13

• Either we're removing a dictator who currently has plans to fund terrorism against American citizens or -- if Bush is completely wrong and Eleanor Clift is completely right -- we're just removing a dictator who plans to terrorize a lot of people in the region, but not Americans specifically. Even for someone like me, who doesn't want America to be the world's policeman, the risk of precipitous action against Saddam Hussein doesn't keep me up at night.

  Ann Coulter

  Night, America, People

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• I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

  Bob Hoskins

  Character, Men, Historical

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• It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Fighting, Individual Happiness

  "Mein Kampf: English Edition".

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• That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict.

  Charles R. Chamberlain

  Military, Government, Iraq

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

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Successful, Design

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

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• England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Military, War

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• A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Loss, Blow

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• Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Thinking, Doe

  Adolf Hitler (1933). “The new Germany desires work and peace: speeches”

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• The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Sarcastic, Two

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Peace, War, Blame

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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• I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Country, Passion

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hope, Country, Work

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: This Government Is Not Capable of Running the Economy". content.time.com. November 15, 1999.

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• The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fashion, Military, War

  "Operation Barbarossa: The Biggest Military Adventure in History" by Erik Sass, mentalfloss.com. June 21, 2011.

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• Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Freedom, Rights

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• If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rise To Power, Political, Germany

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, Rise To Power

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• When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  House, Support, Feminist

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

  Bob Hoskins

  Play, Middle, Fats

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

  Amy Poehler

  Tuesday, Abuse, Trials

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• My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The cool thing about being an aunt is like, I can leave. No offense to my big brother Drew, but that is slavery. I dare you to take a shower. You can't do anything unless they let you. It's a dictatorship. They're little dictators in their crib.

  Renee Zellweger

  Mom, Brother, Children

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• The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

  Harry Belafonte

  Jail, Guy, World

  "Harry Belafonte, MSNBC criticized over 'jailing Republicans' remarks". www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, President, Asian

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• The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Kindness, Hate

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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