Dictator Quotes - Page 21

• You cannot run faster than a bullet.

  Idi Amin

  Running, Military, Evil

  Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”

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• The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war. Already we have a very wasteful healthcare system, the most wasteful healthcare system in the world. I mean, we spend the most money and still have 40 million people without insurance. Compare us to Cuba. Cuba is our enemy, run by a dictator, Fidel Castro. But people in Cuba get health care at least equal to that of the United States - with very scarce resources. So I think this issue is the most important domestic issue.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, War, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While Donald Trump doesn't have any systematic ideology, he does have a narrative, and in that narrative, America was once a great country, it's been weakened by poor leadership, and only he can make it great again by taking over. And that's an image of himself as a strongman, a dictator. It isn't the clear ideology of being a fascist or some other clear-cut ideological figure. Rather, it's a narrative of himself as being unique and all-powerful. He believes it, though I'm sure he's got doubts about it.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Country, Believe, Unique

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Fear, Reflection, Analysis

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• The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya. The Gadhafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist. The enormous potential of the Libyan people was held back and terror was used as a political weapon. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. The new government is consolidating the control over the country. And one of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Destiny

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.

  Mark Millar

  Stars, War, Kids

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

  Robert Mugabe

  Rights, Views, People

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.

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• Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.

  James Lileks

  America, People, Fury

  "Daily Bleat" with James Lileks, www.lileks.com. September 18, 2003.

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• We can call it Isratine.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

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• How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, Enemy

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• Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Coffee, Night, Giving

  "Libya: International response gathers pace after Gaddafi counterattacks" by Ian Black, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

  Simon Cowell

  Crush, Dream, Way

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• Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again.

  Saddam Hussein

  Milk, Kurds

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• To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Reality, Doors

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• When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

  Charles Coughlin

  Party, Government, United States

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• There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Football, Secret, World

  "Throw FIFA Out of the Game" by Dave Zirin, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

  Adolf Hitler

  Father, Military, Lying

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

  Wesley Morris

  Hair, Land, Differences

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• Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Thinking, Media, Yesterday

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• Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

  Jim Jeffords

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Order

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• Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Women, Religion, Use

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

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• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

  Doris Lessing

  Tyrants, Library, World

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• "Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Kings, Law, Tyrants

  Speech at Westminster Hall on July 04, 1935. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 4, 1935.

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• We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Flames, World

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