quotations about dictators
Dictators are ingenious people;
They can put a collar to the snake
And lead it easily on a leash.
LEON TUAM
Mountains and Valleys
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Dictatorship--a system of government where everything that is not forbidden is obligatory.
MIRZA MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN
Islam Versus Socialism
I'm gonna make it on my own
Dictator on a thrown
Make my own philosophy, U.S. of me
PENNYWISE
"My Own Country", Straight Ahead
The most successful form of a tyrant is the tyrant that puts into your head that he is not a tyrant.
JOSEPH JULIUS BONKOWSKI JR.
Quote Me
The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.
ALAA AL ASWANY
On the State of Egypt
Of the hundred palace guards
Most have run away
Of the loyal ones, there are but thirty
They call to me to make a show of strength
But I can't come out
When my uniform is dirty
Dictator in a polo shirt
THE BOBS
"Dictator in a Polo Shirt", Songs for Tomorrow Morning
Dull as dirt
You can't assert
The kinda light that might persuade
A strict dictator to retire
Fire the army
Teach the poor origami
NEWSBOYS
"Shine", Going Public
To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.
GEORGE B. N. AYITTEY
Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE
Full Employment in a Free Society
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.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Omnipotent Government
A dictatorship would be a lot easier ... so long as I'm the dictator.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Governing Magazine, July 1998
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
statement to the Argentine Society of Letters, c. 1946
The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.
ERIC HOFFER
The Ordeal of Change
Yes I am the dictator the more guns I got the better
Yes I am the liquidator I carry the old Beretta
You know there once was freedom
You know how dangerous that can be
The people used to dance and sing
And they used to run wild in the streets
But now I am the voice
Howling from your radio
From my armor plated Cadillac
You'll hear what I say goes
THE CLASH
"Dictator", Cut the Crap
No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.
CLINTON ROSSITER
preface, Constitutional Dictatorship
Politicians and dictators and the guys with the dough
They think they run the world but they just don't know
'Cause down here on the street we got it under control
From Berlin to San Francisco, from London to Tokyo
TODD RUNDGREN
"One World"
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHINS
Hitch-22
It can read your mind
See the world inside
Oversees your life
Decides the day you die
Silent life taker
Sentient creator
World recoil in fear
Of the hidden dictator
KREATOR
"Hidden Dictator"