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• The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

  Theodor Haecker

  Thinking, Essence, Modern

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• CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Crazy, Men, Anchors

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• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Boss

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• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wall, Military, Latin

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• Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Hussein, Weapons

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  World, Instruments, Thirds

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• Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Taste, Saws

  "Towards An Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 8, 1989.

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• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  Eberhard Weber

  Hands, People, Giving

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• We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

  Joni Mitchell

  War, Resemblance Is, People

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• Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

  Bob Kerrey

  Baseball, Cuba, Needs

  "The White House: Just Call Me the Anniversary President". www.cnn.com.

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• Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Ideas, Perfection, Doctrine

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• We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Enemy, Thank God, Idiot

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• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Socialism, Hungry

  Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

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• We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

  Adolf Hitler

  Powerful, Military, Proud

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

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

  Robert Mugabe

  Use, May, Method

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

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• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Knowledge, Gun

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• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

  William Beveridge

  Weed, Ignorance, Marijuana

  "Full Employment in a Free Society". Book by William Beveridge, Part 7, 1944.

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• A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Eye, Men

  "Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations".

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• The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.

  Shimon Peres

  Jobs, Young Generation, Egypt

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• My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Faces, Sour

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, Eugenics

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Real

  Said during detention in London, November 1998.

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• Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Powerful, Peaceful

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.326, Ocean Press

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• There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

  Edna Ferber

  Country, Interesting, May

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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