#dictator

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself. ↗

— Robin Williams

#english #get #himself #language #like

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#dictatorship #domination #will #world

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold. ↗

— Kay Granger

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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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I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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