#dictators

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Alvaro Uribe

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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

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

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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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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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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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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