“The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.”
David Lynch
“Most conservatives have been historically strong defense people, but have been reluctant to embrace the idea that America can dictate the form of government to other states and other peoples.”
David Keene
“Italian sides always give you the idea that you can play your own game. But they also dictate how far you can go.”
Danny Blind
“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,”
Vaira Vike Freiberga
“If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.”
Erica Jong
“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear”
Alan Coren
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
Winston Churchill