Dictator Quotes

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

This man [Adolf Hitler] has everything it takes to be a king. The born tribune of the people … the coming dictator.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred, this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.

Adolf Hitler: The Great One

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Brother Number One

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Theodore Roosevelt is following the footsteps of Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte, and unless we stop him it will be but a question of time when he usurps a dictatorship of the American people.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

If when I die I am still a dictator I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a stable base for a democratic government, I will be remembered forever in every home in China.

Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.