Dictators - Dictatorship Quotes

Who is all powerful should fear everything.

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

Dictatorship is a great adventure… which crumbles in misery and blood.

Is it credible that at the age of sixty-seven I am going to begin a career as a dictator?

When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.

A proletarian dictatorship is never proletarian.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

I intend to open this country up to democracy, and anyone who is against that, I will jail, I will crush.

Dictatorship is like a great beech tree. Nice to look at but nothing grows under it.

So far, you (dictator Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia).and your government have chosen the easy way out for yourselves, and the most dangerous road for society: the path of inner decay for the sake of outward appearances; of deadening life for the sake of increasing uniformity; of deepening the spiritual and moral crisis of our society, […]