Benevolent Dictator Quotes

#1. Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.

Joseph Delaney

#2. Books are good, and I read my share, and TV's okay if you're stuck in a motel room during a rainstorm, but for Jamie Morton, there was nothing like a movie up there on the big screen.

Stephen King

#3. A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

Jaiprakash Gaur

#4. My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

Edgar Mitchell

#5. My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

Robert Sylvester

#6. Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Clare Balding

#7. The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.

Alaa Al Aswany

#8. It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life.

Dana Andrews

#9. Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

Daniel J. Mitchell

#10. I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Richard Branson

#11. What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

Crystal Woods

#12. There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

Matt Mullenweg

#13. Are you going to eat her here, Mr. Rand, or should I prepare her to go?

Mur Lafferty

#14. In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving

Dambisa Moyo

#15. I'm a benevolent dictator.

Harvey Weinstein

#16. I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one ... I would hope.

Joanna Lumley