Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.
Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.
I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.
Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.
Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.
The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch.
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.
Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will
A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.