Dictator Quotes - Page 15

• The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.

  Wolf Blitzer

  War, Isis, Two

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Wish, Used, Should

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• I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up with something terrible in its place, like the communist state, as in Russia or China, where the dictator becomes the messiah figure.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Atheist, Russia, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Courage, Good Coaches

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• Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

  John Wooden

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

  Adolf Hitler

  Money, Children, Freedom

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

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• The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Dream, Jesus

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger's womanising ways return to haunt him" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, People, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only good dictator is a dead one.

  George Ayittey

  George B.N. Ayittey (2011). “Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World”, p.193, St. Martin's Press

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• Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

  George Ayittey

  Leaving, Vapid, Naked

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

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• Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

  George Ayittey

  Continents

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

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• Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Long Ago, People, Hatred

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

  Pentti Linkola

  Government, People, Stupidity

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• Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.

  Gene Sharp

  Agreement, Promise, May

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.12, Albert Einstein Institution

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• The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.

  Zoran ?in?ic

  Alive, Spirit, Rebellion

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• Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Libertarian, Democratic

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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• We are not going to allow to a dictator who is sitting on us to determine the means of confrontation against him. We are not asking his approval to be free. I hope Robert Mugabe, a sick and old man, you are listening. We mean business.

  Arthur Mutambara

  Mean, Men, Sick

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• Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Stress, Oil, People

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• The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Democracy, Judgment, Responsible

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• Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Thinking, Tyrants, Suffering

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• Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Feelings, Should, Indicators

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions”, p.81, Thomas Nelson

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• All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.

  Ronald Reagan

  Kings, Government, Matter

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• A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

  Todor Zhivkov

  Writing, People, Journalist

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• Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

  Milton S. Eisenhower

  Firsts, Disregard, Qualifications

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