"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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"We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States."
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"More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority."
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"Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs."
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"Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests."
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"The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so."
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"Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time."
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"Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased."
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