A Quote by Margaret Thatcher

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
English - Leader
October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Gautama Buddha

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

Gautama Buddha

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

John Bruton

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

Thomas Sowell

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

Khalil Gibran

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Samuel Johnson

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

Constance Baker Motley

I am very confident about my color. It has never deterred me from achieving anything in life.

Manini Mishra

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Jaron Lanier

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Simone Weil

Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.

Gene Sharp

Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

Jane Fonda

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

George Ayittey

Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

George Ayittey

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