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Dictator Quotes

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.
Authors on Dictator Quotes: Augusto Pinochet Mehmet Murat Ildan Charlie Chaplin Ludwig von Mises Muammar al-Gaddafi George Ayittey Che Guevara Margaret Thatcher Todor Zhivkov Rush Limbaugh John T. Flynn Mohamed Nasheed Lysa TerKeurst Adolf Hitler Saddam Hussein Tim Kaine Hillary Clinton Bob Hoskins Denis Villeneuve Zoran ?in?ic Steven Morrissey Lou Reed Yves Saint Laurent Joe Bob Briggs Chen Guangcheng Genghis Khan Erica Jong Pete Seeger Rirkrit Tiravanija Milton S. Eisenhower Friedrich August von Hayek Alain Juppe Laurence J. Peter
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

13.
I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
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

18.
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
Augusto Pinochet

19.
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
Ludwig von Mises

20.
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
Augusto Pinochet

21.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini

22.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Dennis Prager

23.
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
Augusto Pinochet

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

27.
Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

28.
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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

32.
Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
Karl Lagerfeld

33.
I'm a benevolent dictator.
Harvey Weinstein

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

37.
We can call it Isratine.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

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

41.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
Mikhail Gorbachev

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

45.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

46.
I want to be dictator.
Gene Simmons

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

49.
We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
Todor Zhivkov

50.
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
Theodor Haecker