1.
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.
Genghis Khan
Subjugating the planet on horseback is effortless; it is disembarking and administering that is challenging.
2.
Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.
Saddam Hussein
Politics is when you profess one thing but act out another, ultimately achieving neither goal.
3.
Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again.
Saddam Hussein
'Nothing more appalling than Kurds in my cereal. General, guarantee that I never witness another Kurd again.'
4.
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
Che Guevara
'I am not a savior. Saviors do not exist. People emancipate themselves.'
5.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
Aldous Huxley
Rulers can always reinforce their despotism by an invocation of loyalty.
6.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Charlie Chaplin
'Greater than intelligence, we necessitate benevolence and mildness.'
7.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Robert Mugabe
It may be necessary to resort to unconventional tactics.
8.
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
9.
Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
Adolf Hitler
10.
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel Brooks
11.
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there... when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay.
Alexander Lukashenko
12.
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
Augusto Pinochet
14.
Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.
Mohamed Nasheed
15.
I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
Augusto Pinochet
16.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara
17.
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
Mohamed Nasheed
20.
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
Augusto Pinochet
22.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Dennis Prager
24.
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set
Federico Fellini
25.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
26.
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
Nelson Mandela
29.
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
Charlie Chaplin
30.
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
Gene Sharp
31.
Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
Gregory Corso
34.
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
Ludwig von Mises
35.
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
William Gaddis
36.
Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
Adolf Hitler
38.
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Erica Jong
39.
I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.
Jeremy Corbyn
40.
We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
Corrie Ten Boom
42.
Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.
Lysa TerKeurst
43.
The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.
Smokey Robinson
44.
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.
Che Guevara
47.
Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.
Joe Klein
48.
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
Charlie Chaplin
50.
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
Theodor Haecker