“I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.”
November 1998, during detention in London http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20061210/pags/20061210221221.html <br class="br">1990s
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“The real DJ does not follow fashion, he dictates it.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Il vero DJ non segue la moda, la detta.
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Harry Browne (1933–2006) American politician and writer
Part One, chapter 5, page 20
Why Government Doesn't Work (1995)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
"Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018" https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rather-be-a-dictator-than-a-dumb-person-video-2022-4?r=US&IR=T, Business Insider, 22 April 2022 <br class="br">2022, April 2022
Danie Craven (1910–1993) South African rugby union player and administrator
Sunday Times interview (1980s)
“I am ready, but only on one condition. Once I start writing, you should not stop dictating to me.”
Vyasa central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions
Ganesha to Vyasa on the latter’s request to him to write down his narration of Mahabharata. Quoted in p. 139.
Sources, Hindu Culture, An Introduction
“Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.”
Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) Former dictator of the republic of Chile
Speech (December 31, 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1990s
“The only argument which appealed to the dictators was that of force.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Baldwin to the Cabinet in 1937 during his last days as Premier, as quoted in The Collapse of British Power (1972) by Correlli Barnett, p. 449 <!-- Methuen -->
1937
Context: In none of these countries [Russia, Italy and Germany] was it possible to make to the people such an appeal as went home to the heart of our people, an appeal based on Christianity or ethics … The whole outlook in the dictator countries was so completely different from ours that for a long time people here could not understand how it was possible for these nations not to respond to the same kind of appeal as that to which our people responded. But they were beginning to realise it now... The only argument which appealed to the dictators was that of force.
