No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.