Dictator Quotes - Page 14

• I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Ocean, Long, Swim

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• When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

  Jessica Mitford

  Government, Prison, Pope

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Not Avail

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• In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Misery, Stranger

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Book, Writing, One Day

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.90, Delacorte Press

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• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Years, Squad

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• In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

  Edward Bernays

  Life, Freedom, Exercise

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

  Ordway Tead

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.

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• I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Nice, Memorable, Hands

  "Belarus President Lukashenko in his own words". Interview with Richard Balmforth, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Boys, Hands

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• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Home, Kuwait

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• We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Diversity, Want, Helping

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

  Mirabeau B. Lamar

  Education, Money, Men

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• Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

  James Buchan

  Justice, Middle East, Needs

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• Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Memorable, Gay, Shouting

  "Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko: 'Better To Be A Dictator Than Gay'" by Lidia Kelly and Ben Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

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• The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

  Alan King

  Running, Trying, World

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• Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Choices

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Insurance Companies, Company

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• Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.

  Ashton Kutcher

  People, Innovation, Trying

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• I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, War, Fighting

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• Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, President

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• Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Struggle, Fighting

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

  Jaron Lanier

  Made, Made For Each Other

  On "Digital Power And Its Discontents", www.edge.org.

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• Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

  Anthony Daniels

  Men, Moral, Reason

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• A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

  George H. W. Bush

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, Believe

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