#dictators

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy. ↗

— Fatos Nano

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ↗

— Jan Masaryk

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The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ↗

— George F. Kennan

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You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators. ↗

— Brian Schweitzer

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American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. ↗

— Elizabeth A. Sherman

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Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. ↗

— Bruce Coville

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