Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes

He must fear many whom many fear.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

At present, even so dismal a figure as President Nixon is a hopeful sign – precisely because he is so dismal. If any other country were in as desperately precarious a state of confusion as ours, a dozen flambouyant Fuhrers would have sprung up to take it over. It is to America’s credit that no […]

The Sky has ordered me to govern all peoples.

It makes no difference whether government controls allegedly favor the interests of labor or business, of the poor or the rich, of a special class or a special race: the results are the same. The notion that a dictatorship can benefit any one social group at the expense of others is a worn remnant of […]

In 1952, Kenneth Arrow, a professor emeritus at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., proved that no voting system is completely free from counter-intuitive outcomes. Arrow looked at voting systems that satisfy two harmless sounding properties. First, if everyone prefers candidate A to candidate B, then A should be ranked higher than B. Second, voters’ […]

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a savior.

The scientific concept, dictatorship, means neither more nor less than unlimited power resting directly on force, not limited by anything, not restrained by any laws or any absolute rules. Nothing else but that.

He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government – that is despotism.