Dictator Quotes

• I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

  Che Guevara

  People, Liberators

  Statement in Mexico in 1958. "Kaplan AP World History 2005". Book by Mark Bach, p. 240, 2004.

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• The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Politics, Anarchy

  "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

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• Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Appeals, Tyranny

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Democracy, Ladders

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• Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

  Demosthenes

  Law, Enemy, Opponents

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• Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Benefits, Politics

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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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• Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

  Gene Sharp

  Thrones, Election, Remove

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.6, Albert Einstein Institution

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• The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Men, Long

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him.

  Samantha Bee

  Laughing, Worst

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  Wendell Willkie

  Strength, Being Strong, Peace

  Speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president in Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940); as quoted in "This Is Wendell Willkie" by Wendell Willkie, (p. 273 - 274), 1940.

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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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• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

  William Beveridge

  Weed, Ignorance, Marijuana

  "Full Employment in a Free Society". Book by William Beveridge, Part 7, 1944.

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• Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Wish

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.986, Penguin

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Freedom, Learning, Army

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Eye, Men

  "Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations".

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

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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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