Quotes about dictators and dictatorship

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

Bernays, Edward L. on dictators and dictatorship   

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount."

Churchill, Winston on dictators and dictatorship
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"Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator."

Eisenhower, Milton S. on dictators and dictatorship   

"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on dictators and dictatorship   

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics."

Himmel, Samuel on dictators and dictatorship   

"Dictators always look good until the last minutes."

Masaryk, Tomas G. on dictators and dictatorship
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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."

Orwell, George on dictators and dictatorship
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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 on dictators and dictatorship
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"In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee."

Trotsky, Leon on dictators and dictatorship   

"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."

Wilde, Oscar on dictators and dictatorship
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