Quotes from Dictators

Day 578, 17:14 Published in USA USA by Greg 454

The philosophy of some of the most fascinating dictators in history.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
Die, but do not retreat.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Death solves all problems - No man, no problem.
Joseph Stalin

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Brutality creates respect.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
He alone, who owns the youth, owns the future.
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The day of individual happiness has passed.
Adolph Hitler

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Inactivity is death.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Benito Mussolini

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Julius Caesar

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.
Caligula

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
Augusto Pinochet

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
You cannot run faster than a bullet.
Idi Amin

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.
Robert Mugabe
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
Robert Mugabe

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