#dictator

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. ↗

— Richard Branson

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A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. ↗

— Alan Bullock

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You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. ↗

— Tommy Chong

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ↗

— Alan Coren

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Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship. ↗

— Juan Gelman

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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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