Dictator Quotes - Page 2

• Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

  Jan Masaryk

  Leadership, Looks, Lasts

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• Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Special, Protection

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• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Differences

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Children, Tyrants, People

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan

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• But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

  Isabella Rossellini

  Role Models, Roles, Want

  "I don't want to be a dictator or to be adored" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

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• 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

  Peace, Links, Problem

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• I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Believe

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• We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, President

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• Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

  Benito Mussolini

  Baffled, Anarchist

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• It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

  S. Robson Walton

  Years, Friendly, World

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• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  Peter DeFazio

  War, Men, Tyrants

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• I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

  Corazon Aquino

  Thinking, People, Democracy

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

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• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  Ace Frehley

  Albums, Records, Helping

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• Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Creativity, Subversive

  1972 'The Artist as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

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• Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

  Charlie Chaplin

  People

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

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• President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

  Lindsey Graham

  Leadership, President, God Bless

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• Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Israel, Hatred

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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Kings, Real, Islamic

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Opportunity, Invention

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1962). “Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization”, p.227, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Taste, Saws

  "Towards An Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 8, 1989.

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• We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

  Colin Powell

  Opportunity, Government, People

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• Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

  Lou Reed

  Claims, Terror

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• Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

  Bob Kerrey

  Baseball, Cuba, Needs

  "The White House: Just Call Me the Anniversary President". www.cnn.com.

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• I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Boss

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