80 Dictator Quotes for You to Enjoy

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness. Denis Villeneuve

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Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves. Denis Villeneuve

You Sometimes Subconscious Control Ourselves Inside Compulsion Coming Dictator

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. Eberhard Weber

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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

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Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government. Elliott Abrams

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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. Garry Kasparov

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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

King Rule Absolutely Like Dictator Should

Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want to impose their fundamentalist vision. Neither cared for the core values of the Arab Spring - representative, accountable governance. Jamal Khashoggi

Marriage Vision Values Spring Everyone Arab Arab Spring Neither He Knew Ideologues Governance Impose Were Accountable Dictator Representative Convenience Want Who Fundamentalist Cared Core Core Values

Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population. Jared Cohen

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We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure. John F. Kerry

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It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block. John Niven

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