Quotes and Sayings about Dictators & Autocrats

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Warning: It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Having a dictator rule in Russia is by far the greatest existential threat to humanity.

I think that it is better to be a dictator - than to be gay.

Three little words have helped dictators rule: State-run television.

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

You should know that all power comes at a price. For every bit of power you gain, so too do you gain more responsibility.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.

Power resides where men believe it resides.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

To look powerful is to be powerful.

Any man who must say, 'I am the king', is no true king.

if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Money is the McMansion in Sarasota, that starts falling apart after ten years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

Big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts.

The powerful have always preyed on the powerless, that's how they became powerful in the first place.

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

You're in politics. You know that no one can claw their way to the top without getting a little dirt under their fingernails.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

There are only three alternatives for me; to be arrested, to be killed, or to be victorious. And I tell those scumbags: I will never go to jail!

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

There's one thing that every terrorist knows: fear is the most effective explosive.

Love is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.

Everyone gets scared, kid. Without fear, you can't have courage.

I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country.

This is tragic for my country. Thousands of young Russians die for that lunatic dictator. Many of them were born under Putin and now die under Putin.

Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country.

It is time to stop the anarchy on the Internet. We cannot allow this great technological achievement of man to be turned into an information garbage heap.

Death's still a mystery. But life, a little less so. Alone, we walk the Earth quiet. But together? As a team? Oh, we can do some shit awfully loud.