#dictators

If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #dictatorship

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

#dictatorship #liberty #license #near

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

#anywhere #chance #choice #choose #democracy

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#anything #avoid #because #blatant #could

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. ↗

— James Buchan

#dictators #east #justice #middle #middle east

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#die #hate #liberty #long #men

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years. ↗

— Rob Walton

#been #cia #dictators #friendly #installing

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#afghanistan #country #dictatorship #having #impose

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#had #owners #team #time #you

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#conflicts #criticism #decision #dictatorship #earlier