#dictator

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#dictatorship #impossible #made #television #unbearable

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#become #dictator #dictators #egypt #generation

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#away #bombs #call #corrupt #culture

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. ↗

— Richard Perle

#external #forces #internal #justify #military

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dictator #i #model #myself #really

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

— Jan Masaryk

#dictators #good #last #look #minutes

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#democratic #dictatorship #fig #hide #leaves

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

— Brian Schweitzer

#dollars #healthcare #pay #sending #trillion