Dictator Quotes - Page 11

• I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.

  Tucker Carlson

  Writing, People, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul Haq. No one demanded the blasphemy law in Pakistan. But he wanted to give protection to his undemocratic rule, dictatorship, by using religion. So Pakistan came into being in 1947, and from 1947 until 1986 no case against any minorities was registered under the protection of the blasphemy law. Nobody from minorities was killed and no act of violence happened [against them].

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Military, Law, Giving

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Korea, Time Zones

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• Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Goodbye, Country, Song

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• Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Fearful

  "Where There's Oppression, There's Resistance: Chen Reflects on Future of China". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. January 29, 2013.

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• Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. But history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on. Dictators don't ask "Why?" before they seize even more power. They ask: "Why not?"

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Taught Us, Why Not

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Islands, Views

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• Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Driving, Force, Tyranny

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• Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Family And Friends, Together

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• President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation.

  David Letterman

  Running, Girlfriend, Vacation

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• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Growing Up, Men

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• One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.

  Mona Charen

  War, Might, Cold

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• It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Views, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

  Jane Fonda

  Names, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Differences, Government

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

  Dora Russell

  Running, Society

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• When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kgb, Russia, Eight

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

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• A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Simple, Leprosy

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 171, 1951.

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• To be a leader means to be able to move masses

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Moving, Mean

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.1073, Adolf Hitler

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• In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Eye, Self, Mad

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2012). “Shosha”, p.238, Penguin UK

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• In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Giving, Chance

  Marjane Satrapi (2004). “Persepolis Two”, Pantheon

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• In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Struggle, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bullying, Fun, Responsibility

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Way, Good Way

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• As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Fall, Animal, Journey

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.271, Random House

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