Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

— Bernays, Edward L.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

— Churchill, Winston

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

— Eisenhower, Milton S.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

— Fuller, R. Buckminster

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

— Gandhi, Mahatma

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.

— Himmel, Samuel

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

— Masaryk, Tomas G.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

— Orwell, George

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

— Plato

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

— Trotsky, Leon

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

— Wilde, Oscar