Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes

Excessive power sees power beyond its power.

In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right.

When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia and made it possible for a stranger to travel there without being killed by the native Danakils he was rendering the same service to the world as we had in rendering by the same methods (including poison gas) in the north west provinces of India, and had already completed in Australia, […]

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

A very fair spot but there is no way down from it.

A proletarian dictatorship is never proletarian.

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

I intend to open this country up to democracy, and anyone who is against that, I will jail, I will crush.

Dictatorship is like a great beech tree. Nice to look at but nothing grows under it.

So far, you (dictator Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia).and your government have chosen the easy way out for yourselves, and the most dangerous road for society: the path of inner decay for the sake of outward appearances; of deadening life for the sake of increasing uniformity; of deepening the spiritual and moral crisis of our society, […]