Dictator Quotes - Page 25

• The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

  Kim Il-sung

  Struggle, Simple, Evil

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

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Gun, Men, Leader

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• A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.

  Karen Armstrong

  Atheist, Creativity, Self

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• Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.

  Gene Sharp

  Rights, Brutality, May

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.13, Albert Einstein Institution

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• In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Responsibility, Boss, Revolution

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• How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Government, Law

  "Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage" by Orson Scott Card, www.deseretnews.com. July 24, 2008.

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• When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

  Max Horkheimer

  Mean, Yield, Today

  "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 28), 1982.

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• Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people.

  George Allen

  Power, Tyrants, People

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• The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

  Robert Mugabe

  Men, White Man, Zimbabwe

  "Not a black and white story" by Blessing-Miles Tendi, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2008.

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• Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, Enemy

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• If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Communication, Secular Society

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

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• If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

  Isa Blagden

  Truth, Lying, Interesting

  "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.

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• In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving

  Dambisa Moyo

  Country, Party, Moving

  Dambisa Moyo (2009). “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa”, p.43, Macmillan

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