#dictator

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

— Joe Bob Briggs

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Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. ↗

— Alan Bullock

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You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. ↗

— Tommy Chong

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ↗

— Alan Coren

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Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

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

— Dennis Prager

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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.' ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." [From the Preface] ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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