Dictator Quotes

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)
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. View quote
Benito Mussolini
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! View quote
Isabella Rossellini
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator? View quote
Charles de Gaulle
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. View quote
Frances Perkins
I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war. View quote
Tony Blair
Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists. View quote
Robert Mugabe
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun. View quote
Fidel Castro
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. View quote
Colin Powell
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China. (Chiang Kai-shek)
"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator. View quote
Will Self
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets. View quote
Pete Doherty
[Absolute Dictator]It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war. View quote
James A. Garfield
I'm not getting elected dictator or king. But if I could wave a magic wand, I would eliminate income tax. I would eliminate corporate tax. And I would replace it with one federal consumption tax. View quote
Gary Johnson
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. (Herbert Hoover)
The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. View quote
Natan Sharansky
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator. View quote
Augusto Pinochet