This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
Victor HugoTags: history legacy kings dictators
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
Alfred de MussetTags: dreams control dictators
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading censorship illiteracy dictators
Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!
Bill MaherYou can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.
P.G. WodehouseTags: dictators
Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.
Gene SharpTags: negotiation dictators
Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.
Gene SharpTags: resistance negotiation dictators legitimacy
The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.
Aysha TaryamTags: politics philosophy democracy revolution dictatorship dictators egypt arabspring
Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.
Andrew CroftsTags: power wealth revolution politicians dictators tyrants diplomats
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