Bob Hoskins Quotes

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

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

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.

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

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

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.

Erdogon has become so paranoid, so power-hungry, he doesn't even allow institutions to flourish. It has become a one-man show.

That's how dictators get started.

Dictators don't come from elections.

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not frightening. I am not a bad person at all.

The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democratic than any regime run by any clique the Chinese Communist Party's ruling elite has vomited up since the days of Mao Zedong.

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

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

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

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.