Ted Lindsay Quotes

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

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

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

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.

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

According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.

My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

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.

Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.