Being Dictatorial Quotes & Sayings

My mind is so impatient, so quick, in some ways so desperate. — Virginia Woolf

The faces of the people were wrinkled with change. Sudden change to which the skin can't possibly conform, faster than the aging of man, faster, even, than their wildest dreams. It stretched their skin thin, as did their bulging bellies, their newfound love of doughnuts, hamburgers, milk and cheese. What was once a once-a-year privilege could now be bought in twelve shops on the same street. — Megan Rich

He is lofty, and I am eminent. — Gough Whitlam

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. — Bill Moyers

It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press. — James McAvoy

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals. — Eric Roberts

With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along. — Michael Parenti

Musk began thinking back to his time as an intern at the Bank of Nova Scotia. His big takeaway from that job, that bankers are rich and dumb, now had the feel of a massive opportunity. — Ashlee Vance

Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized. — Marco Rubio

The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there are in the room - the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness. — Will Oldham

I talk about jobs, I talk about our veterans being mistreated. — Donald Trump

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn. — Charles Dickens

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. — Robert C. Solomon

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi