Dictator Quotes

“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“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

“The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set”
― Federico Fellini

“The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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: A Novelist's Provocative Reflections

“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.”
― William Beveridge

“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.

Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.

The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President – whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive – can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.”
― Harold Nicholson

“Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“No man is a caricature, no individual can alone bear responibilty for a nation's collapse. The disaster Zaire became, the dull acquiescence of its people, had its roots in a history of extraordinary outside interference, as basic in motivation as it was elevated in rhetoric. The momentum behind Zaire's free-fall was generated not by one man but thousands of compliant collaborators, at home and abroad.”
― Michala Wrong, In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz

“The most dangerous, the most complex, the most insidious and the most incorrigible type of criminal the world has ever known is the Tyrant.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“There is only one thing worse than a tyrant and that is a tyrant's victim.”
― Henry James

“THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS

When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Tyrant's main weapon is the Darkness. First, we will dispel the Darkness with the light of Justice and Truth!”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“The shortest method to keep people away from Justice and Truth is to starve them. When individuals agree to do whatever to fill their stomachs, there will be little left of human ideals. Dungeons, Chains, Whistleblowers and sticks in the hands of Cowards come into play to starve them, not to let them even have a loaf of bread.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“The shortest method to keep people away from Justice and Truth is to starve them.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“Every law that arises from the pleasure or interest of someone, not from the structure of human and Nature, is Illegal.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“Laws are Legitimate only when they are taken from Nature. Since human is a part of Nature, the regulations that impose restrictions on his behavior vis-à-vis other humans and Nature must be created by observing human nature and the laws of the universe.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“To be free, means to have no master but Nature”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“Liberty is the state of having no master other than the Legitimate, that is, Natural and Universal Laws. Human beings can therefore only be constrained by Legitimate Laws.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“-Once upon a time, Liberty was within the reach of everyone. However, the people did not value it because they had enough. They believed that Life could go on without Liberty, and as such, the Tyrant hoodwinked the people into believing that he saved them from the danger called Liberty. And presented himself as the Supreme Savior Leader, and his newly established Dark World Order as Life.
-And people believed him.”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo, To Be Tried As A Jew

“The ageing, oppressive, authoritarian dictator tends to forget one axiomatic truth; the nation and the people have time, he does not.”
― R. N. Prasher

“The tragic end of Julius Caesar, who destroyed the Republic, has never had a deterrent effect on the aspiring dictators who came after him in history! Because dictatorship is a mental illness. Even if you tell a rabid dog not to bite, it will still bite because it is sick, rabies is a disease, dictatorship is a disease! Once you give authority to the dictator, you can't take it back. If you don’t want to destroy him like Brutus, never give him authority, this way you will save his life and the lives of others! The most humane cure for dictatorship is not to give it authority!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you do not demand better of those that lead you, you will be part of fashioning the dictator who will control you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Freedom will always call men to itself regardless of the degree to which any tyrannical form of government might demand that men submit to its preferred brand of tyranny.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dictatorul a înconjurat România cu sârmă ghimpată.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi, De ce fierbe copilul în mămăligă

“DICTATORUL L-A INTERZIS PE DUMNEZEU.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi, De ce fierbe copilul în mămăligă

“To subjugate another is to evidence the fact that I have subjugated myself to all of the lesser things that have prompted me to do in the life of another what I have allowed these lesser thing to do in my life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hakuna mwisho mwema kwa dikteta yeyote!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan