Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."
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Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism."
Charlie Chaplin
Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
"More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
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"Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way."
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"Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own."
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"Fashion designers are dictators of taste."
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"I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ."
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"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone."
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"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!"
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"The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny."
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"I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air."
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"President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve."
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"Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right."
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"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."
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"The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently."
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"In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated."
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"Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all."
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"Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things."
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"I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator."
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"Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator."
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"Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels."
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"Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential."
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"The Queen is the ultimate dictator."
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