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.

— Edward L. Bernays

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

— Winston Churchill

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

— Milton S. Eisenhower

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.

— Samuel Himmel

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

— Tomas G. Masaryk

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

— George Orwell

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

— Plato

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.

— Leon Trotsky

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

— Oscar Wilde