Harry Belafonte Quotes

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

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

Dictators are interesting, no?

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

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

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.

As far as the opposition to Jayalalitha was concerned, it was that she was misusing authority for personal corruption, denying people their liberties, attacking the opposition with violence, and there was nobody who could challenge her.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

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

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

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

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

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.

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

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