Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes
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, […]
What is curious about 20th century dictatorships is that with their powerful means of repression they fear the slightest murmur of dissent. A careless word, a mistimed joke is enough to suggest heresy. This remains true under present day “political correctness,” but so far the penalties have been mild – opprobrium, loss of employment, and […]
The previous regime reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.
The lesson of North Korea for other Third World dictators is to go nuclear as rapidly as possible, and as secretly as possible, and then act crazy so as to deter us.
If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier – just as long as I’m the dictator. (Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect)
