Tyrants Dictators Quotes

#1. When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Kevin McCarthy

#2. How could he have submitted to a faith that is ... unchristian? Catholicism is the same thing as an unchristian faith!' he added suddenly, his eyes beginning to flash, and he stared ahead of him, somehow taking them all in with his eyes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. But no one else can save you, not really. Not from yourself.

Ava Dellaira

#4. A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#5. Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

Samael Aun Weor

#6. Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people.

George Allen

#7. It's the principle of the thing, Jess . That's what you've got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they turn into tyrants and dictators.

Katherine Paterson

#8. Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

Eleanor Smeal

#10. Dictators and tyrants are the ones who lead their people over a cliff.

David Runciman

#11. Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse
no matter the people
no matter the language
Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one
long enough
hard enough
You will find one truth.

Mike Mignola

#12. Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better - a member of a community where every individual was vital.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.

Stephen Kinzer

#14. Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.

Andrew Crofts

#15. When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Leon Jaworski

#16. Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

Raymond Carver

#17. Shut up. If you don't shut up, if you don't cease resisting immediately, I will pull your tongue out of your mouth, drag it around your neck, and strangle you with it.

J.D. Robb