#dictator

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

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The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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

— Tommy Chong

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I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

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