Augusto Pinochet Quotes

I want to be dictator.

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

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

Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.

Dictators are interesting, no?

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

From this day the presidency of Mexico ends. The dictatorship of Mexico begins.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

The whole administrative, judicial, and legislative machinery obeys a single will, the caprice of General Porfirio Diaz, who during his long administration has shown that the principal motive that guides him is to maintain himself in power and at any cost.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a "dictator" substitutes himself for the central committee.

Morsi has appointed himself as Egypt’s new Pharaoh.

When you read history you that kings who have come to the end of their tether, as a rule, would suffer death rather than give up part of their power.

Hitler does not wait for congress.

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in the world who has resigned while still quite healthy.

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

For decades, Robert Mugabe has thumbed his nose at the world. The long-time dictator has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist, repeatedly insulted foreign dignitaries, ignored regional and international agreements to which he was a signatory, and isolated the country from any legitimate international economic or political engagement.

An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.