Dictator Quotes - Page 6

• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

  George Orwell

  Order, Doe, Revolution

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

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• You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, Fear, Home

  "The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", radio broadcast to the United States and to London, October 16, 1938.

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• The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Real, Party, Mean

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• Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Mean, Self

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• The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their people after a coup d'état, and bound them to their own aggressive purposes. In view of the great service that conscription has rendered to tyranny and war, it is fundamentally shortsighted for any liberty-loving and peace-desiring peoples to maintain it as an imagined safeguard, lest they become the victims of the monster they have helped to preserve.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Mean

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• My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Country, People, Style

  "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

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• The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

  John T. Flynn

  Dream, Lines, Socialism

  John T. Flynn (1949). “The Road Ahead”

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• Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem...

  Lewis Black

  Country, Crazy, Smart

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• Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Leader, Historical, Liberty

  Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely And Important Today As Five Centuries Ago”, p.173, Macmillan

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• I truly believe Donald Trump is not a true conservative. His values as a Republican or a self-described Republican, when he mocks the disabled, when he really badly stumbles when asked about David Duke and the KKK, when he says that he admires Vladimir Putin and then quotes the dictator Francisco Mussolini - this is unfathomable to me that this is the type of individual who leads the party that I love.

  Scott Rigell

  Party, Believe, Conservative

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• I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Apology, America

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Years, Dollars, Pay

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• If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

  Ben Stein

  Winning, Upset, Trying

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• Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

  Ari Fleischer

  People, Hussein, Chance

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• Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

  Don King

  Dream, Coffee, Boxing

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• Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him.

  Clive Palmer

  Sports, Running, Crazy

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Home, Kuwait

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• 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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• Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Peace, War, Blame

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Sarcastic, Two

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• Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Thinking, Doe

  Adolf Hitler (1933). “The new Germany desires work and peace: speeches”

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• A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Loss, Blow

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• England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Military, War

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