Dictator Quotes - Page 7

• I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Couple, War

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

  Jimmy Reid

  Jobs, Boys, Government

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

  Richard Griffiths

  Disrespect, Crime, Ifs

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Writing, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Home, Government, Hands

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• Since we don't have a tyrant or a dictator, we can't put people who are burning flag in jail. But Donald Trump is telling you what he thinks of 'em. He's not gonna do anything of the sort. This is where people go off the rails with Trump, with this literal business and so fort

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Rail

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

  Denis Villeneuve

  Sometimes, Subconscious

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Alvaro Uribe

  War, Latin, Reviews

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• I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sorry, Want, Conquer

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

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• Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

  Christopher Hitchens

  Would Be, Tactics, Revolutionary

  "Murder was their only motive" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2001.

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• 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, but we have lost the way.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, World, Earth

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

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• Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Justice, Police

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin. Hillary Clinton knows exactly who this guy is. John McCain said, I look in his eyes and I see KGB. And Hillary kind of has that same feeling.

  Tim Kaine

  Eye, Thinking, Guy

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically different. If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies will not be radically different from those that would be followed by a democracy either.

  Gordon Tullock

  Mean, Democracy, Different

  Gordon Tullock (1987). “Autocracy”, p.20, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Home, Tasks, Debt

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• I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Popularity

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Trump loves dictators. He's got kind of a personal Mount Rushmore, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein. And last and most dangerously, Donald Trump believes - Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons.

  Tim Kaine

  Believe, World, Kind

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Fields, Doe

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

  Bob Dole

  Jobs, Wall, War

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• When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  War, Years, America

  "Kirkpatrick Hit Liberals for Blaming America First". www.washingtontimes.com. May 15, 2006.

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• The American administration obviously has supported the dictators in the Muslim countries and the Muslims are rising, as you can see their boiling in Libya and Egypt and many other countries and they're rising up against the oppression and the Americans should stay away from trying to, if you like, put another dictator in place, and I don't think the American interest in the current time in the Middle East with their presence, rather they should withdraw their forces, they should withdraw their own personnel, this is a very insecure time for the Americans I think.

  Anjem Choudary

  Country, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, People, Forgiving

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.144, Penguin

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• When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Tyrants, Risk

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• Hitler was obviously a dictator. And he was Christian. And I think that he persecuted the Jews, there's no doubt about that. And he did that for nationalistic reasons, which would be prohibited in Islam.

  Anjem Choudary

  Christian, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• I'm the type of actor that believes the director has to be in charge. I've been on sets where the actor's ego was the most important thing, and with a director that messes it up. But I don't like a dictator, I want it to be collaborative - the best idea wins. If I feel respected, and I'm going to give that back. If a director wants to try something, cool, I'll give it back. I also feel like they cast me for a reason, so I'm going to make my mark on it... let me do my thing.

  Miles Teller

  Believe, Winning, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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