#dictator

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#dictator #force #forever #hold #imprisoned

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#better #dictators #help #i #kinda

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#democracy #dictator #elected #even #him

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #establish #makes #order #revolution

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

#does #end #establish #makes #means

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