Dictator Quotes - Page 18

• You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

  Robert Duvall

  Play, Actors, Come Up

  "Robert Duvall’s talks about his faith-themed film “Seven Days in Utopia” — and why he’s not into “message movies”". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. 2011.

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• The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people, enlightened people who live conscious lives and do not simply sit there and vegetate. To love the people you have to be the general secretary of the Communist Party or an absolute dictator.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Party, People, Childhood

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Buddhist, Leader

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

  Jean Ziegler

  Country, Blood, Switzerland

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Pity, Reactions

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• We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Censorship, Imposing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Hate, Tyrants

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• As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, Political, Helping

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• I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Important, Vote

  "The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary" by Boris Bazhanov, Saint Petersburg, 1992.

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• We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

  Tom Segev

  Giving Up, Long, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

  Rand Paul

  Islam, Middle East, Chaos

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.

  Colin Firth

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

  Adam Johnson

  Country, Eye, Korea

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• Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

  Henry Miller

  Mistake, Opinion

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Mother, Father, People

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• I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.

  John Adams

  School, Knowledge, Feet

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9

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• Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

  Jessamyn West

  Leadership, Women, Distance

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Police, Democracy

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the conying so. And, tinued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West.

  Robert Fisk

  Children, Feelings, Dying

  Source: progressive.org

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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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• Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

  Chris Christie

  Dream, Empires, Judgment

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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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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