#dictator

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

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones. ↗

— Gene Sharp

#elections #business

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#enslave #free #people #themselves

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#castro #dictatorship #reporting #truth #truth is

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

— Lech Walesa

#continue #dictators #fear #here #i

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

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

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #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

#behaves #being #care #children #culture

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

— Joe Bob Briggs

#draft #instrument #most #often #third

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

— Alan Bullock

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