A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
Joe Bob Briggs

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
Elizabeth A. Sherman

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Charles Edison

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Charlie Chaplin

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie

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

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
Oriana Fallaci

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Dennis Prager

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
Antonio Tabucchi

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
Lindsey Graham

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

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Barbara Amiel

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky