#dictator

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. ↗

— Colin Powell

#form #gave #got #government #iraqi

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#considers #dictatorship #during #even #experiments

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#certain #desires #dictatorship #does #ego

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#apology #began #begin #dictated #dictators

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dictator #i #model #myself #really

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#dictatorship #elections #go #maintain #stake

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ↗

— Jan Masaryk

#dictators #good #last #look #minutes

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#country #death #dictator #eyes #freedom