Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes

Democracy, freedom, human rights have come to have a definite meaning to the people of the world which we must not allow any nation to so change that they are made synonymous with suppression and dictatorship.

We have nothing against ideas. We’re against people spreading them.

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.

If Big Brother (of Orwell’s 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he […]

Mussolini is a man possible only in a country that has no appreciation of real acting.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

He must fear many whom many fear.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

At present, even so dismal a figure as President Nixon is a hopeful sign – precisely because he is so dismal. If any other country were in as desperately precarious a state of confusion as ours, a dozen flambouyant Fuhrers would have sprung up to take it over. It is to America’s credit that no […]

The Sky has ordered me to govern all peoples.