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Definition of Dictator
Dictator

One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

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Dictator Quotations

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
Corazon Aquino

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes

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

Dictator Translations

dictator in Dutch is dictator
dictator in French is dictateur
dictator in German is Diktator
dictator in Latin is dictator
dictator in Portuguese is ditador
dictator in Spanish is dictador
dictator in Swedish is diktator


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