Dictators Quotes
Historical reflections on authoritarian rule.
These quotes reference specific 20th century dictatorships, from Italy in the 1920s and Germany in the 1930s to Latin American regimes decades later. One notes that Saddam Hussein studied and copied Stalin as a model of modern dictatorship.
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
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Admired Quotes
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
Africa Quotes
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
American Quotes
Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.
Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.
Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.
