Top 289 Dictators Quotes & Sayings

There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Dictators don't come from elections.

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Corporations are the new dictators.

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Corruption empowers and enriches dictators.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The Cold War was two competing visions of the future. I was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. We do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. They are time travellers. They need confrontation and destruction to survive. The problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.

Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present dictatorship in Egypt. He might start to cozy up to the Gulf dictators as a way of trying to scare the Iranians. This could lead to a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf.

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.

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.

There are some showrunners who run their room like dictators, from what I hear.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

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

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome.

You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

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

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

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.

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.

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

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

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

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