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Tag Name "Dictator" (267)

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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
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Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.
Mohamed Nasheed
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Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
Charlie Chaplin
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Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Jan Masaryk
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Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
Gene Sharp
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Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.
Samael Aun Weor
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Richard Perle
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
Aldous Huxley
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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!
Charlie Chaplin
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Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
Jimmy Reid
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
Margaret Thatcher
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Dictators are interesting, no?
Martin Parr
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Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
Dagobert D. Runes
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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Gene Sharp
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Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
George Ayittey
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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.
Wole Soyinka
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The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.
Ronald Lauder
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
Naomi Wolf
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The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.
Wolf Blitzer
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The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.
Rush Limbaugh
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