Dictator Quotes - Page 15

• I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Country, War, Dark

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• It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Land, League

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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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• Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Grateful, People, Political

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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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• 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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• Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Taken, Never Forget

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.

  Mark Leyner

  Book, Infatuation, Mao

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist. My heart was in the right place, but I was such a tiny dictator about it. It's embarrassing to me now because I was so rigid. It's such a rigid way of looking at the world. There's something very young about that mind-set.

  Zoe Kazan

  Book, Heart, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

  Hugo Chavez

  Gorgeous, Socialist, Interest

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• Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

  Clare Balding

  Attitude, Children, Kids

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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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• 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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• In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

  William Safire

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• They say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they were kids, they wanted to be big and to crush the small, but they were small themselves. Lenin was short, Stalin was short, Putin...

  Vladimir Voinovich

  Crush, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. But Putin - I don't know about women, but it looks like he definitely likes money quite a bit. He's painted himself into a corner; he has committed so many sins and crimes, he has no choice but to hold on to power. No matter how he leaves, his policies will definitely be condemned as bad and wrong, and everything will be blamed on him, just as he now blames Yeltsin. It could be done by someone who, at this moment, is professing boundless love for Putin.

  Vladimir Voinovich

  Real, Choices, Done

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When people were like, "Oh, wow, Donald Trump is so crazy. That's so nuts, what's happening?" in the 9 a.m. meeting, Jon Stewart was like, "No, I've seen this before, in Robert Mugabe. I've seen Trump as an African dictator. You guys don't know about nationalist rhetoric all over Europe?" "No, I thought we were the center of the world." He has the ability to actually talk about that in a real way: "Oh, I've been there. I've talked to people there. This is just the remix on stuff that's been brewing for three, four years." That's something very special.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Crazy, Real, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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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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• 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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• The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

  Fidel Castro

  Doubt, Enemy, Firsts

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• To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Greed, Progress

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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