Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes

The real object of all despotism is revenue.

You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.

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.