It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many military dictatorships. Although we have a dictator in Honduras, as a result of a coup, now as a president, he is almost the only one I would say. But again led or managed, gestated by the U. S. government.
As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump.
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I don't like [to] make a woman. . . an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that. ". . . I am not a dictator.
The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
Hitler was obviously a dictator. And he was Christian. And I think that he persecuted the Jews, there's no doubt about that. And he did that for nationalistic reasons, which would be prohibited in Islam.
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I did (in 2013), I said my next book, this one, was going to be about Mussolini. I wound up only having a Mussolini cameo in the book.
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.