Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chen Guangcheng

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

(Lukashenko) has provided proof that he is a dictator and must be treated as such. In addition, one must think about the possibility of other sanctions.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

We're helping a nation that was being murdered by a madman. He was a dictator that needed to be removed.

Augusto Pinochet

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

Augusto Pinochet

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Aldous Huxley

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Rand Paul

I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

Ted Haggard

if this dictator starts to think of evangelicals as people who are gunning for him, that could be difficult for missionaries there.

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

We have seen the results of appeasement. ... It is much easier to tolerate a dictator when he is dictating over somebody else's life and not your own,

C. S. Lewis

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

When Western governments try to use economic pressure to secure human rights improvements, China's no-strings rule gives dictators the means to resist.

We're not just trying to be dictators of taste.

to sacrifice Taiwan's security in order to appease the dictators in Beijing.

Surely the United States should do what it can to prevent dictators elsewhere from inferring that repression works.

(Late Philippine dictator Ferdinand) Marcos is a good example, Mr. (Manuel) Noreiga of Panama. But this is all way after the fact. They don't get into the game soon enough to really make a difference.

Ludwig von Mises

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Ludwig von Mises

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

We Germans know from our own experience that dictators can sometimes only be stopped with force.

We're also going to point out dictators that are supported by the U.N..

Richard Boucher

We do think it's a rather dubious distinction to be the first democratically elected head of state to go meet with the dictator of Iraq

Brendan Sexton III

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

Jimmy Carter

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

Joe Klein

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Sinclair Lewis

a dictator with something of the earthy American sense of humor of a Mark Twain, a George Ade, a Will Rogers, an Artemus Ward.

Dictators don't like to give up power freely, and in this case, Lukashenko is no exception. So I think what he would like to do and feels that the only way he can stay safe and secure is by staying in power using any method.

There will be peace when the dictator is out of that palace,

Harvey Weinstein

I'm a benevolent dictator.

Federico Fellini

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

George isn't a dictator. There aren't many dictators left in this league. You're not going to last long as a dictator.