Veronica Roth Quotes

Dictators are interesting, no?

The army and the government needs a dictator.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

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

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

Power tends to corrupt if you're there too long.

It is a favorite maxim of despotick power, that mankind are not made to govern themselves.

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power..

Mobutu does not think he is God.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.