Zitat des Tages über Diktatoren / Dictators:
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.
Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.
Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.
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.
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.
I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.
