Dictatorial Quotes

#1. There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

James Bovard

#2. Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.

Alex Comfort

#3. I see the Bush Doctrine as an American-style "enabling act," giving dictatorial powers to any sitting president.

Ron Paul

#4. Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi

#5. Capital trickles away from dictatorial states that fail to defend private individuals and their property. Instead, it flows into states upholding the rule of law and private property.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

Tom Stoppard

#7. Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

Brent Scowcroft

#8. Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

George Washington

#9. Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.

R.J. Rushdoony

#10. I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

Arthur Frommer

#11. It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#13. Dictatorial government is more dangerous than lions!

Enock Maregesi

#14. As James Heartfield, author of The European Union and the End of Politics, noted, to follow such events is to 'Step through the looking glass into the EU-world where the rule of the people is dictatorial, but the rule of unelected experts is democracy.'5 The

Mick Hume

#15. I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Winston Churchill

#16. I tell you that I'm not dictatorial, I'm not intolerant, I'm not overpowering! You're all wrong, wrong, wrong, I tell you! I'm the most relaxed and understanding of people! None of you, I insist, must ever say I'm dictatorial again!

Neville Chamberlain

#17. You make me sound dictatorial," he said. "Finish your breakfast.

Thea Harrison

#18. Bossy means "given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive." ... Could it be that girls are called bossy when they're ... well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?

Matt Walsh

#19. Suppose we were planning to impose a dictatorial regime upon the American people - the following preparations would be essential:

Edward Abbey

#20. Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized.

Marco Rubio

#21. The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision ...

Hooman Majd

#22. Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.

Sasha Grey

#23. It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves.

John Boyne

#24. The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

Newt Gingrich

#25. We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

Dan Burton

#26. Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.

Nenia Campbell

#27. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Barbara Amiel

#28. I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Norman Lock

#29. Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

Murray Rothbard

#30. Dictatorial tendencies rarely contain themselves to just one aspect of work.

Eric Schmidt

#31. Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

Alanis Morissette

#32. The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

Steve Coogan

#33. If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#34. I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.

Judy Woodruff

#35. To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#36. The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

George Orwell

#37. Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Nhat Hanh

#38. Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

Gustavo Gutierrez

#39. I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.

Ben Shahn

#40. My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

Aldous Huxley

#41. The dictator says "You are allowed to think as you want" but never write it down or talk about it. If you cross these borders we cannot guarantee your security

Bangambiki Habyarimana