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  • To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

    Running   Reality   Doors  
  • More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

    "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
  • The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

    War   Men   Thinking  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

    "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.
  • Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be a savior, so he says, in his famous phrase, "Only I can fix it!" That's a strange and weird statement for anybody to make, but it's central to Trump's sense of self and self-presentation. And I think that has a lot to do with his identification with dictators. No matter how many they kill and no matter what else they do, they have this capacity to rule by decree without any interference by legislators or courts.

    Source: www.salon.com
  • We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

    Father   Dictator   Ends  
  • How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

    Military   War   Enemy  
  • In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

    People   Giving   Chance  
    Marjane Satrapi (2004). “Persepolis Two”, Pantheon
  • It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control.

    Television interview, 1987.
  • The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.

  • People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will.

    Dream   Real   Lying  
    Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”
  • The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

    Crush   Dream   Way  
  • Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

    Strong   War   Party  
  • Obviously, I think being vegan is important. But no one should judge anybody. I'm not a dictator and I don't expect anyone to be any certain way.

    "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the "Car-Crashians"". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.
  • I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

    Book   Writing   One Day  
    Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.90, Delacorte Press
  • I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.

    Wise   Country   Long  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

    Way   March   Dictator  
    Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa
  • In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he wants. Of course, in the movie, in the story, she makes a mistake by hiring him. But, if she doesn't, I have no story.

    Source: collider.com
  • Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

    War   Chance   Sometimes  
    "Blair promises to be bolder" by Mark Davies, news.bbc.co.uk. October 1, 2002.
  • 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.

    Hands   People   Giving  
  • When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

  • In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

    Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.386, Ocean Press
  • What we get from all religions especially from the Prophet's life, peace be upon him, is that there is no way to reach peace if we are not ready to sacrifice, not ready to strive, not courageous enough to face the powers here and the dictators who don't care about humanity or human life.

    "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.
  • You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

    Jobs   Wall   War  
  • You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

    Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.
  • Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

    War   Flower   Simple  
  • One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

    Iron   Enemy   Boots  
    "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.
  • The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.

  • In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.

    War   Home   Kuwait  
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