#dictators

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

— Joe Bob Briggs

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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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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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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record. ↗

— Ace Frehley

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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

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I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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