Dictator Quotes - Page 8

• The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Strong, Party

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

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• Recognise that the free world is at war with Putin, and America is the leader of the free world and should build the coalition against him. It is similar to what Harry Truman did in the Forties. They have to oppose the threat that comes from Putin and other dictators.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Leader, World

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• For the last 60 years, dictator Fidel Castro was America's most persistent adversary. Although Castro formally handed off to his brother, Raul, eight years ago, the communist leader was a symbolic force in Cuba and around the world.

  John S. Dickerson

  Brother, Leader, World

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Laughter, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, America, Long

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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• The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.

  Karen Tumulty

  Office, Presidential, Tough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

  Luigi Colani

  Car, Reputation, Inspired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "U.S. policy on Iraq draws fire in Ohio". www.cnn.com. February 18, 1998.

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• 80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."

  Barack Obama

  United States, News, Able

  Barack Obama's remarks in Year-End Press Conference in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 19, 2014.

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• Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

  Dale Jamieson

  Suffering, Generations, Bills

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

  Ben Elton

  Leader, Trying, Looks

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• Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Socialist

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• The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Party, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.480, VM eBooks

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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.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Leader, Russian History

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Want, Aim

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

  Oscar de la Renta

  Latin, Wife, Looks

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• My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured...understand that we have to work together on the big issues.

  Newt Gingrich

  Writing, Issues, Perfect

  "A TARP Counterfactual" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. December 8, 2009.

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• My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Spiritual, Doe, Moral

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• Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

  Karin Slaughter

  Girl, Country, Book

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• Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.

  Martin O'Malley

  Home, Evil, Stronger

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next.

  Martin O'Malley

  Fall, Thinking, Understanding

  "Hillary Clinton at Democratic debate: ISIS 'cannot be contained'" by MJ Lee, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Army, Fighting

  "Democratic debate transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley in Iowa". www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Men, Play

  Ernest Hemingway, Séan A. Hemingway (2003). “Hemingway on war”, Scribner Book Company

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• The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, Ignorant Masses, Support

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