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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. F. Sionil Jose

Gun Power Rich Guard Easily Security Dictators Forget Famous Holds Transitory Lowest Who

Corporations are the new dictators. Gabriel Byrne

Corporations New Dictators

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. George Ayittey

Other Per More Continent Dictators Than Any Africa

Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion. Hisham Matar

Vision Libya Cities Kind Paranoid Like Most His Metropolis Dictators Suspicion Suspicious Gaddafi Romantic Galleries Inhabitants Universities

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism. Howard Jacobson

Art Great Obedient Solvent Ban Dictators Reason Fundamentalism

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels. Hugo Chavez

Gorgeous Dictators Interest Even Socialist

People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering. Jacob Weisberg

Suffering Blame People Enemies Country Isolation Live Hermit Increasing States Easier Borders Inside Propaganda Fed Outside Like Global Know Make Cuba Korea Dictators North North Korea Diet Burma Happening Sanctions Them Who Suffer Seclusion External

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived. Leon Krier

Genius Problem Problems Car Resolve Enormous Solution Tried Drew Something Paris He Idea Conceived Most Demolish Bloody Dictators Artist Order Which Centre Even Adapt

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve. Lindsey Graham

When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities. Mario Vargas Llosa

Corruption Cruelty Extravagance Latin Latin America Course Because His Dictators America Fifties Full Figure University

Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets. Mona Eltahawy

Sentiment Out Has-Been Weapons Born Civilians More Attacks Support Occupation Israel Been Iraq Yemen Targets Dictators Than Intended Afghanistan Mubarak Wars Many Pakistan Palestine

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one. Naomi Wolf

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. Natan Sharansky

Nature Peace Problem Behavior Must Between Understand Genuine Making Least Understood Link Dictators Regime Why External

Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay debts that we knowingly lent to bad regimes long since gone; and all illegitimate debts - debts lent to these terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein, like Suharto, like Marcos - must also be canceled. Noreena Hertz

Education Health People Care Long Gone Bad Must Hussein Saddam Saddam Hussein Countries Since Like Also Knowingly Terrible Health Care Shelter Repay Provide Debts Dictators Regimes Lent Illegitimate Need

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. Oriana Fallaci

World King Leader Met Other Khomeini Puppet Arafat He Like Sort Islamic Islamic World Real Dictators Pope Many

A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators. Rocky Carroll

Great History You World Free Society Books Rule Kings Absolute Imperialism Look Democratic Democratic Societies Democratic Society Queens Norm History Books Dictators Monarchs Based World History Societies

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