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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Perle

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Ismail Kadare

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

Barbara Amiel

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Richard Perle

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

M. F. K. Fisher

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

John Ralston Saul

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