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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Forever, Population, Arms

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". Babylon 5 (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1994-1998.

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• Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

  Richard Perle

  Military, Police, Secret

  Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

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• Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

  Nelson Mandela

  Way, March, Universal Suffrage

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Evil, Leader

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

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• Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

  William Gaddis

  Power, People, Corrupt Power

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• Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

  George Ayittey

  Firsts, Steps, Free Society

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

  Caligula

  Long, Leader, Care

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• I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Coward, Revolutionary

  "The Death of Che Guevara: Declassified" by Peter Kornbluh, nsarchive2.gwu.edu.

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• He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dangerous

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• Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

  Gene Sharp

  Strength, Confidence, Strong

  "Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare". Interview with Mairi Mackay, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2012.

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• To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Usa, Political, President

  "Does Obama Deserve Credit for Killing Qaddafi?" by Adam Clark Estes, www.theatlantic.com. October 20, 2011.

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• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

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• More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Needs, Cleverness

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

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  Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Cuba, Matter

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.105, Ocean Press

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• True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Political, Intellectual

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Years, Remnants, Stamps

  "The Dregs of Dictatorship". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2012.

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• When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

  Leon Jaworski

  Men, Law, Tyrants

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• In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Organization, Politics

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• The majority can never replace the man

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Majority

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.108, eKitap Projesi

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• We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Business, Thinking

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

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• This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

  David Mitchell

  Baby, Love Is, Lust

  David Mitchell (2014). “The Bone Clocks”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Views, Surrender, Defeated

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

  Garry Kasparov

  Smell, Weakness, Definitions

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

  Garry Kasparov

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Mean, People

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