(221 quotes found)
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
Winston Churchill
“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
“I can never consent to being dictated to.”
John Tyler
“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes”
Jan Masaryk
“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
“We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.”
Robin Williams
“More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.”
Dennis Prager
“All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.”
Ronald Reagan
“I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.”
Augusto Pinochet
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