#dictator

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.' ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#cross #dictators #gone #real #real thing

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." [From the Preface] ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#big-business #bureaucracy #corporations #corporatocracy #dictatorship

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#napoleon #age

You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#design

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#dictator #evil #ignorance #specieism #vegan

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#away #blowing #blown #blown away #breeze

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dictatorship #easier #heck #lot #question

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— George W. Bush

#destruction #dictator #homicidal #hussein #mass

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#enslave #free #people #themselves

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. ↗