Dictator Quotes - Page 22

• I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  War, Son, Want

  "What’s Happening in Libya Explained", www.motherjones.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Man has become great through struggle

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Struggle, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Goal

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

  Charles Stross

  Memories, Amnesia, Collectives

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.222, Penguin

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• History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.

  Angela Merkel

  Wall, East Germany, Years

  Angela Merkel's Remarks in an Exchange of Toasts with President Obama, www.newsroomamerica.com. June 7, 2011.

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• If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Attitude, Cells, White

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• I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Benefits, Socialism, Worried

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• Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, War, Who Cares

  "Jon Stewart Destroys Fox News Over Syria Coverage: ‘Who Cares HOW We Avoided A War...’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2013.

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• More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

  Emma Goldman

  Class, Majority, Terrible

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

  Frank Capra

  Kids, People, Groups

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

  Arthur Frommer

  Country, Depressing, Culture

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• All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.

  George Lucas

  Ideas, People, Giving

  "Democracy, Tyranny, and Star Wars". Time Interview, www.ign.com. April 25, 2002.

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• The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

  Ronald Lauder

  War, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Real, Lying

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Arms, Defeat

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.16, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

  Peter R. Scholtes

  Leadership, Managers

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• I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Gun, Thinking

  "I Won't Be a Dictator". Interview with Ruth Lloyd, January 1959.

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• How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Sweat, Suffering

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.341, Ocean Press

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• If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Honesty, Thinking, Desire

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• The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

  Federico Fellini

  Stills, Movie Sets

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• As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

  Julian Huxley

  Fate, Dope, Political

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• You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

  Tommy Chong

  Balance, Checks

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Succeed, Election, Persons

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• I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 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. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Hate, Men

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

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• Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Enemy, Conquer

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