Dictator Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be a savior, so he says, in his famous phrase, "Only I can fix it!" That's a strange and weird statement for anybody to make, but it's central to Trump's sense of self and self-presentation. And I think that has a lot to do with his identification with dictators. No matter how many they kill and no matter what else they do, they have this capacity to rule by decree without any interference by legislators or courts.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Thinking, Giving, Strange

  Source: www.salon.com

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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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• Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

  John T. Flynn

  Jam, Economic, Fascism

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• Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

  Che Guevara

  Leader, Anarchy, Turns

  "An American Savage". Book by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144, 2003.

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• The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

  Steve Coogan

  People, Feelings, Thrill

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• Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United States...Lincoln was a great dictator....This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

  Clinton Rossiter

  War, Successful, Men

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• It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Leader, Flesh

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• The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force them to submit to his value judgments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Choices, Democracy

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.479, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch.

  Jay Leno

  Fake, Guy, Pills

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