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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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• The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.

  Criss Jami

  Hands, Feelings, Contentment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

  Leon Krier

  Ideas, Political, Towns

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• The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

  Leon Krier

  Artist, Order, Ideas

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Father, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

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• It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, War, Party

  "Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States from 1862-1896". Book by S. M. Brice, Cuthbert Vincent, 1882.

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• Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Thinking, Careers

  Press conference, May 19, 1958.

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• Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

  Jimmy Carter

  Communism, Be Confident, Embrace

  Address at Commencement Exercises at the University of Notre Dame, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 22, 1977.

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• A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Speech, Print, Free Press

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• You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.

  David Letterman

  Circles, Korea, Evil

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• I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Abstract, Concepts

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• Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Ideas, Self

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.574, Library of America

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• Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Winning, Leader, Democracy

  "Giuliani: Too much stress on two-state plan". www.jta.org. August 15, 2007.

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• Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.

  Will Self

  Responsibility, Too Much Power, Our Society

  "The Moral Maze" on BBC Radio 4, October 01, 2008.

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