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• If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.

  Herman Melville

  Eye, Heart, Men

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.108, Velvet Element Books

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• Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties are severed." Unsever them," he growled, "or the Country of Raphael will be forced to declare your republic a protectorate." Dictator," I muttered. For life," he agreed.

  Katie MacAlister

  Country, Ties, Joy

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• Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Sacrifice, Men

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• The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Passion, Fate

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• There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Decision

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Party, Democracy

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• How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ego, Messengers

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

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• We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Hands, People

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Stupid, People, Regimes

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• The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, People, Use

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• Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

  Ari Fleischer

  People, Hussein, Chance

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• I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what you're seeing now in this administration. I don't think they care for this country. And I think they're trying to make it into some kind of third-world socialistic cesspool. I think they are willing to get in bed with any dictator or despotic ruler that they see.

  Allen West

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

  Benito Mussolini

  Heart, Hands, Leader

  "The Great Quotations" by George Seldes, (p. 349), 1966.

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• I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Apology, America

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Years, Dollars, Pay

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• Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him.

  Clive Palmer

  Sports, Running, Crazy

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• If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

  Ben Stein

  Winning, Upset, Trying

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• There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Leader, Democracy, States

  "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy". news.bbc.co.uk. March 24, 2006.

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• Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

  George H. W. Bush

  Presidential, Doe, Hussein

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

  Lech Walesa

  Long, Should, Fear Me

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• It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Democracy, Way

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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• Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

  Don King

  Dream, Coffee, Boxing

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• 'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

  Naomi Wolf

  America, Details, Would Be

  "Smugglers of truth" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, People, Ego

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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