Dictator Quotes - Page 4

• Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

  Alan Coren

  Freedom, Thinking, Democracies Have

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

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• All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Complaining, Pregnant Women, Parachutes

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• Great causes and little men go ill together.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Men, Together, Causes

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Real

  Said during detention in London, November 1998.

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• As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Hussein

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, Eugenics

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.

  Shimon Peres

  Jobs, Young Generation, Egypt

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• I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Fall, Cutting

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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• Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Looks, Lasts, Minutes

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• The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  World, Call Of Duty, Accepting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Blessing

  Adolf Hitler's speech on March 3, 1933, as quoted in "The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922 - August 1939" edited by Norman H. Baynes (p. 409), 1969.

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• As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Long, Liberty

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• An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Together, Ends, Latter

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• No good end exists for any dictator!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ends

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• Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Devil, Shade

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• Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

  Gregory Corso

  Bombs, Poet, Throwing

  Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Oxygen, World, Increase

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• The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

  Steven Morrissey

  Queens, Ultimate

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• He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Believe, Fool

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• Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

  George Ayittey

  Blood, Hands, Reform

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

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• How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

  Pat Robertson

  Atheist, Drug, Age

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• The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

  Pierre Cardin

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

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• I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

  Che Guevara

  Christ, Old Lady, Philanthropist

  "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life". Book by Jon Lee Anderson, 1997.

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• I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Speech, July 1987.

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• This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

  Fidel Castro

  Spiritual, Country, Heaven

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