Definition of Dictator

Dictator

One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

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Dictator Quotations

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Colin Powell

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover

I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.
Condoleezza Rice

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
Lou Reed

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien

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.
Joni Mitchell

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
Isabella Rossellini

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
Corazon Aquino

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Natan Sharansky

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
Natan Sharansky

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
Lakhdar Brahimi

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
Eberhard Weber

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Noam Chomsky

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Peter DeFazio

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
Bob Balaban

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. Michael Straczynski

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.
Kay Granger

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
Henry Flynt

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
Frances Perkins

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.
John F. Kerry

I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
Augusto Pinochet

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
Bob Kerrey

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Dictator Translations

dictator in Dutch is dictator
dictator in French is dictateur
dictator in German is Diktator
dictator in Latin is dictator
dictator in Portuguese is ditador
dictator in Spanish is dictador
dictator in Swedish is diktator

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