Dictator Quotes

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

J. Michael Straczynski

American filmmaker

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

Gary Johnson

businessman

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Mel Brooks

American actor

There is something about being able to look at this family on the film where a woman drops out of the sky, magically makes their father happy, makes the children happy, gives them all a purpose. And with great courage, they overcome a tyrannical dictator and go on to a happy, wonderful life.

Nicholas Hammond

American-Australian actor

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

Leon Krier

Architect

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.

Peter Bergen

American journalist

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Benito Mussolini

journalist

We've centralized all of our data to a guy called Mark Zuckerberg, who's basically the biggest dictator in the world as he wasn't elected by anyone.

Peter Sunde

Entrepreneur

Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.

Jared Cohen

actress

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

Kay Granger

United States Representative

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

Isabella Rossellini

Italian-American actress

After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

Octavian Paler

Romanian writer

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

Bob Menendez

United States Senator

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

Bob Balaban

American actor

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

Henry Flynt

American philosopher

I don't want to sound like a dictator but I don't seek too much opinion from players. That's not to say I won't bounce things off them. But they are looking for you to lead.

Eddie Howe

English football manager former player

Of course Castro was Cuba's longest serving president. After all, he was a dictator.

Katie Pavlich

American commentator

The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.

Joe Garcia

Former United States Representative

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

John F. Kerry

United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

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