Dictatorship quotes

“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Orson Welles - Harry Lime

“He's no God! He has a butt-hole!”

Kang-ho Song - Soldier Watching the Interview

“I want freedom! That's what I want, and that's what you should want! It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose of just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the insecurities, because that is the central mode of control, make us feel pathetic, small, so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny. We have...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alex Jones - Man in Car with P.A.

“This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.”

Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone

“- Eric Liddell: The Kingdom of God is not a democracy. The Lord never seeks re-election. There are no referenda on which road to take. There's one right, one wrong, one absolute ruler.
- Sandy McGrath: A dictator you mean?
- Eric Liddell: Aye, but a benign loving dictator.”
Ian Charleson - Eric Liddell
Struan Rodger - Sandy McGrath

“The people would vote for Donald Duck or Genghis Khan or whoever the local cop tells them to because if they don't, this is what happens!”

James Woods - Richard Boyle

“All dictatorships take away our freedom to choose. We both know that. Or reveal our own weaknesses.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict

“One Fuhrer is enough!”

Sig Ruman - Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz

“- Marie Colvin: The Syrian regime is claiming that they're not hitting civilians, that they're just going after terrorist gangs. But every civilian house has been hit. The top floor of the building I'm in has been totally destroyed. There are no military targets here. It is a complete and utter lie.
- Newspaper Editor: Well, thank you for using...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin
Michael Haydon - Newspaper Editor

My father left me when I was a child. The British Army became my home. They took me as a cleaner, in the kitchens, cleaning pots. They used to beat me. "Beat this wall, Amin". "Dig the latreen, Amin". And now, here I am. The President of Uganda. And who put me here, huh? It was the British.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“You know who else was just following orders? Adolf Hitler.”
Ryan Gosling - Holland March

“What kind of warlord throws a pool party on a weekday?”
Bill Murray - Richie Lanz

“Any country that can survive Stalin can certainly handle a little dope.”
Ed O'Ross - Viktor Rostavili

“He cannot, like Hitler, scrape from the conscience the knowledge that right is right and wrong is wrong, or dig holes in their heads to plant his own ten commandments: steal from thy neighbor, cheat thy neighbor, kill thy neighbor.”

J. Carrol Naish - Giuseppe

“Swastikas were drawn backward, indicating either haste or a lack of familiarity with this most infamous of anti-semetic emblems, or perhaps rather more implausibly... that Hindus were involved.”
Tim Fletcher - TV Reporter

“- Torrance Shipman: Courtney, this is not a democracy, it's a cheerocracy. I'm sorry, but I'm overruling you.
- Courtney: You are being a cheer-tator Torrance and a pain in my ass!”
Kirsten Dunst - Torrance Shipman
Clare Kramer - Courtney

“We did our duty, but we lost our humanity. You must understand, we Japanese are a selfless people capable of immense sacrifice because of our complete devotion to a set of ideas. We are also ruthless warriors capable of unspeakable crimes because of that same complete devotion. I cannot tell you if the Emperor is guilty or innocent. I don't know...” (continue)(continue reading)
Toshiyuki Nishida - General Kajima

"I think I better blame it on this guy".

Michael Francis Moore - Narrator

“- Randol Schoenberg: It's hard to believe Hitler once applied to be an art student here.
- Maria Altmann: I wish they'd have accepted him.”
Ryan Reynolds - Randol Schoenberg
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“- Idi Amin: You dare try to poison me? After everything I gave you? I am Idi Amin! President-for-life and ruler of Uganda. I am the father of Africa.
- Nicholas Garrigan: You're a child. You have the mind and ego of an angry, spoiled, uneducated child. And that's what makes you so fucking scary.”
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

Remember those two Jewish commandos who were sent to kill Hitler at 12:30? They waited in an alley with guns, bombs and knives... only Hitler didn't show up. After half an hour came and went, still no Hitler. Finally, one Jew turns to the other and says, "My God, I hope nothing happened to him".
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“Under Franco we lived in a world where the police would raid your home and ask whether you read Kafka.”
Carlos Saura

“Franco took so long to die that we all had time to buy champagne.”
Carlos Saura

“- Bad Best Man: And, um, Chris has been like a brother to me. Well, I... because my real brother died. Well, he didn't die immediately...
- Jimmy: No...
- Bad Best Man: They revived him in the ambulance, then he died later. Hah... uh... Adolf Hitler once said...
- Jimmy: Holy fucking shit.”

Josh Peck - Bad Best Man
Kevin Hart - Jimmy Callahan

“Our Beloved Leader is wise. He is gentle, kind and strong. We wish him joy. We wish him peace. We wish him love. And the other thing in our time we wish more than this, is for the United States to explode in a ball of fiery hell. Die America, die.”

Yuna Song - Korean Girl