Sacha Baron Cohen Quotes

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

I am inclined to believe dictators. Not to is dangerous.

That's how dictators get started.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Dictators are the last to know.

You can't be a dictator any more; anyone who tries to play the part of God will stumble.

Every dictatorship creates thousands of smaller dictators who live on for decades.

Joseph Stalin was a supreme egotist and sadist, capable of sacrificing everything and anyone for the sake of his own power and glory.

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

Dictators don't come from elections.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.