Profoundly inspirational dictator quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
Famous Dictator Quotes
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner. Criss Jami
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Fidel Castro
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. Marc Bekoff
When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity. Asma Jahangir
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will. Ludwig Von Mises
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set. Federico Fellini
When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power. Jorge Ramos
The ultimate story of success When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations. Criss Jami
This is how dictatorships always behave they deny reality; they deny crises. Juan Guaido
The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy. Alaa Al Aswany
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. Benazir Bhutto
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. William Beveridge
I am in favour of a dictatorship. Jair Bolsonaro
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate communism as an idea. I hate communism as a practice. Maybe one day the communist utopia will be realized. I don’t know! But so far none of the communist states has come close to it. Instead, what I have noticed is that communism is generally the refuge of a fascist to legitimize his dictatorship. At least that’s what history tells us. Abhaidev
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. Wole Soyinka
Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me. Vladimir Putin
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal. Pope Francis
Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away! Mehmet Murat ildan
Hitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Alan Bullock
Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office. Abhijit Naskar
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires. Pope Benedict XVI
No man is a caricature, no individual can alone bear responibilty for a nation’s collapse. The disaster Zaire became, the dull acquiescence of its people, had its roots in a history of extraordinary outside interference, as basic in motivation as it was elevated in rhetoric. The momentum behind Zaire’s free fall was generated not by one man but thousands of compliant collaborators, at home and abroad. Michala Wrong
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the ledger. Hisham Matar
The power of the fascist is ignorant and mentally slave citizens, who worship a leader like a Messiah. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
It’s not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It’s the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way. Jimmy Lai
It might be useful to think about authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or any kind of dictatorship in the same way we think about dangerous, life threatening, infectious diseases. The best prevention against such a disease is to build immunity. Education is like a vaccination. Understanding history is part of the process of making ourselves more immune to the dangers of dictatorship. Kenneth C. Davis
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo
I am most grateful for two things that I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea. Yeonmi Park
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting. Charles Bukowski
For the people of any nation, the death of their dictator is like the end of a long and brutal war. They breathe down in great relief. Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. Will Durant
The Greatest enemy of the dictator is the nation. Azadshah Ganjali
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. Richard Branson
It is one thing to overthrow a dictator or to repel and invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. James Baldwin
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. William Blum
His opulent funeral was attended by all his subjects, although due to heavy snowfall the majority of them were present only in spirit. Yanko Tsvetkov
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair
Cowards will always commit war crimes. Anthony T. Hincks
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. Richard Perle
Emotional connection with the political leader is the originator of the dictator. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there’s no dictatorship here. Hugo Chavez
If I could I would! is the maxim of tyrants. Lamine Pearlheart
I’m not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. Salman Rushdie
We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt. People are forever thinking that the unthinkable can’t happen. If it doesn’t exist in thought, then it can’t exist in life. And then, in the blink of an eye, in a moment of danger, a figure who takes power from our weak desires and failures emerges like a rib from sand. Jean de Men. Some strange combination of a military dictator and a spiritual charlatan. A war hungry mountebank. How stupidly we believe in our petty evolutions. Yet another case of something shiny that entertained us and then devoured us. We consume and become exactly what we create. In all times. Lidia Yuknavitch
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. Sun Yat sen
Shatter the Educational institutions, is the always priority of a dictator because the dictator knows, nothing revolutionary more than Educated and aware Youth. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. Alice Walker
One man regimes belong to old eras; they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third class contemptible regimes! Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Friedrich Engels
Stop fucking dictators! Every time you have sex with a rich, sadistic sociopath, you only perpetuate all the darkness in the world. Roberto Hogue
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance. Benazir Bhutto
The sheep think the shepherd is sacred And the dog is protecting them from the wolves.actually, shepherds and dogs eat more sheep not wolves. Mursel Murselzade
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. Shimon Peres
In an authoritarian system, the masses suffer from a guilty conscience even when they insist on their rights before the dictator’s eyes. Elmar Hussein
Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
The worst thing some people have ever done is save some people’s lives. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day. Heinrich Boll
The Dictator never comes with a whip or a sword in hand. On the one hand, it has a begging bowl of sympathy and a basket of dreams on the other hand. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is true, however, that a dictator’s problem is a self fulfilling prophecy precisely because he reserves the right of decision for himself, he soon finds himself required to decide everything. John Vincent Palatine
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell
Remember, the difference between a dictator and a true leader, is in intention. Abhijit Naskar
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. Corazon Aquino
No dictator has a healthy mind because only a sick mind can be a dictator! Mehmet Murat ildan
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. Mikhail Gorbachev
Life has two faces the beautiful and the ugly. Life is a responder and not an initiator or dictator. It responds not to your circumstances but to your attitude to them. It waits in the wings until you dictate your attitude to a situation. Life then responds with a corresponding face that matches your attitude ugly for ugly, beautiful for beautiful. In essence, you choose your own life. It would seem that God has given you an enormous power to be the initiator or the dictator of the life you wish live. Abiodun Fijabi
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it. George W. Bush
It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power. Wilhelm Reich
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. Dave Brubeck
Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator! Mehmet Murat ildan
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Niels Bohr
If Marion Hawthorne doesn’t watch out, she’s going to grow up into a lady Hitler. Louise Fitzhugh
It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships. Katharine Gun
Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see leading and serving as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner. Criss Jami
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Fidel Castro
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. Marc Bekoff
When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity. Asma Jahangir
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will. Ludwig Von Mises
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set. Federico Fellini
When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power. Jorge Ramos
The ultimate story of success When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations. Criss Jami
This is how dictatorships always behave they deny reality; they deny crises. Juan Guaido
The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy. Alaa Al Aswany
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. Benazir Bhutto
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. William Beveridge
I am in favour of a dictatorship. Jair Bolsonaro
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate communism as an idea. I hate communism as a practice. Maybe one day the communist utopia will be realized. I don’t know! But so far none of the communist states has come close to it. Instead, what I have noticed is that communism is generally the refuge of a fascist to legitimize his dictatorship. At least that’s what history tells us. Abhaidev
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. Wole Soyinka
Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me. Vladimir Putin
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal. Pope Francis
Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away! Mehmet Murat ildan
Hitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Alan Bullock
Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office. Abhijit Naskar
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires. Pope Benedict XVI
No man is a caricature, no individual can alone bear responibilty for a nation’s collapse. The disaster Zaire became, the dull acquiescence of its people, had its roots in a history of extraordinary outside interference, as basic in motivation as it was elevated in rhetoric. The momentum behind Zaire’s free fall was generated not by one man but thousands of compliant collaborators, at home and abroad. Michala Wrong
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the ledger. Hisham Matar
The power of the fascist is ignorant and mentally slave citizens, who worship a leader like a Messiah. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
It’s not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It’s the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way. Jimmy Lai
It might be useful to think about authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or any kind of dictatorship in the same way we think about dangerous, life threatening, infectious diseases. The best prevention against such a disease is to build immunity. Education is like a vaccination. Understanding history is part of the process of making ourselves more immune to the dangers of dictatorship. Kenneth C. Davis
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo
I am most grateful for two things that I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea. Yeonmi Park
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting. Charles Bukowski
For the people of any nation, the death of their dictator is like the end of a long and brutal war. They breathe down in great relief. Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. Will Durant
The Greatest enemy of the dictator is the nation. Azadshah Ganjali
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. Richard Branson
It is one thing to overthrow a dictator or to repel and invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. James Baldwin
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. William Blum
His opulent funeral was attended by all his subjects, although due to heavy snowfall the majority of them were present only in spirit. Yanko Tsvetkov
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair
Cowards will always commit war crimes. Anthony T. Hincks
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. Richard Perle
Emotional connection with the political leader is the originator of the dictator. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there’s no dictatorship here. Hugo Chavez
If I could I would! is the maxim of tyrants. Lamine Pearlheart
I’m not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. Salman Rushdie
We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt. People are forever thinking that the unthinkable can’t happen. If it doesn’t exist in thought, then it can’t exist in life. And then, in the blink of an eye, in a moment of danger, a figure who takes power from our weak desires and failures emerges like a rib from sand. Jean de Men. Some strange combination of a military dictator and a spiritual charlatan. A war hungry mountebank. How stupidly we believe in our petty evolutions. Yet another case of something shiny that entertained us and then devoured us. We consume and become exactly what we create. In all times. Lidia Yuknavitch
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. Sun Yat sen
Shatter the Educational institutions, is the always priority of a dictator because the dictator knows, nothing revolutionary more than Educated and aware Youth. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. Alice Walker
One man regimes belong to old eras; they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third class contemptible regimes! Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Friedrich Engels
Stop fucking dictators! Every time you have sex with a rich, sadistic sociopath, you only perpetuate all the darkness in the world. Roberto Hogue
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance. Benazir Bhutto
The sheep think the shepherd is sacred And the dog is protecting them from the wolves.actually, shepherds and dogs eat more sheep not wolves. Mursel Murselzade
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. Shimon Peres
In an authoritarian system, the masses suffer from a guilty conscience even when they insist on their rights before the dictator’s eyes. Elmar Hussein
Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
The worst thing some people have ever done is save some people’s lives. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day. Heinrich Boll
The Dictator never comes with a whip or a sword in hand. On the one hand, it has a begging bowl of sympathy and a basket of dreams on the other hand. Mohammed Zaki Ansari
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is true, however, that a dictator’s problem is a self fulfilling prophecy precisely because he reserves the right of decision for himself, he soon finds himself required to decide everything. John Vincent Palatine
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell
Remember, the difference between a dictator and a true leader, is in intention. Abhijit Naskar
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. Corazon Aquino
No dictator has a healthy mind because only a sick mind can be a dictator! Mehmet Murat ildan
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. Mikhail Gorbachev
Life has two faces the beautiful and the ugly. Life is a responder and not an initiator or dictator. It responds not to your circumstances but to your attitude to them. It waits in the wings until you dictate your attitude to a situation. Life then responds with a corresponding face that matches your attitude ugly for ugly, beautiful for beautiful. In essence, you choose your own life. It would seem that God has given you an enormous power to be the initiator or the dictator of the life you wish live. Abiodun Fijabi
A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it. George W. Bush
It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power. Wilhelm Reich
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. Dave Brubeck
Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator! Mehmet Murat ildan
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Niels Bohr
If Marion Hawthorne doesn’t watch out, she’s going to grow up into a lady Hitler. Louise Fitzhugh
It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships. Katharine Gun
Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see leading and serving as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference. Craig D. Lounsbrough
