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★ Dictator & Dictatorship

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.  Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937

 

 

In Loving Memory of Kim Jong-Il.  The Dictator 2012 starring Sacha Baron Cohen & Anna Faris & Ben Kingsley & Jason Mantzoukas & John C Reilly & Boby Lee & Sayed Badreya & Adeel Akhtar & Fred Armisen & Mark Campbell & Edward Norton & Megan Fox & Jon Glaser et al, director Larry Charles, opening caption

 

Who is General Aladeen?  ibid.

 

The world shall kneel before our great nation.  We are two months away from enriching weapons-grade uranium.  To be used for peaceful purposes.  ibid.  dictator

  

Pretend that I’m an idiot.  ibid.

 

Wii Terrorist.  ibid.  dictator at play

 

We are going to the devil’s nest of America.  ibid.

 

Ah America: Built by the blacks and owned by the Chinese.  ibid.  dictator in New York

 

I am here to deliver my speech to the United Nations.  ibid.  dictator to rozzer

 

We are a vegan feminist non-profit cooperative operating within an anti-racism, anti-oppressive framework for people of all or no genders.  ibid.  protester

 

Where are the rebel bases?  ibid.  dictator to baby

 

And you’re wanted for war crimes.  ibid.  her to him

 

        

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

 

 

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power.  These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator.  The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.  Steven Patrick Morrissey

 

 

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.  Mel Brooks

 

 

We’ve been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn’t care about the law.  Garry Kasparov

 

 

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

 

 

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.  Vladimir Putin

 

 

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.  Mikhail Gorbachev  

 

 

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy.  Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended.  We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.  Steven van Zandt

 

 

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.  A N Wilson

 

 

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

 

 

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.  Voltaire

 

 

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.  Harry S Truman, lecture 28th April 1959

 

 

When word got out we were interested in the genocide, the army would no longer let the survivors participate in the movie.  And so they suggested we film with the perpetrators.  The Act of Killing ***** director’s introduction, Sky Atlantic 2016 

 

In 1965 the Indonesian government was overthrown by the military.  Anybody opposed to the military dictatorship could be accused of being a communist: union members, landless farmers, intellectuals and the ethnic Chinese.  In less than a year and with the direct aid of western governments, over one million ‘communists’ were murdered.  ibid.  caption  

 

‘At first, we beat them to death, but there was too much blood.’  ibid.  executioner

 

‘Communism will never be accepted here, because we have so many gangsters, and that’s a good thing.’  ibid.  governor of province

 

Pancasila Youth is one of Indonesia’s biggest paramilitary organizations.  Pancasila Youth played a leading role in the 1965-1966 killings.  ibid.  caption    

 

‘We have too much democracy.  It’s chaos.  What is this ‘democracy’?  Things were better under the military dictatorship.  Better economy.  More security.’  ibid.  leader of Pancasila Youth

 

‘There were people like me everywhere in the world.’  ibid.  gangster

 

‘But when I’m falling asleep it comes back to me.’  ibid.

 

‘I’m absolutely aware we were cruel.’  ibid.

 

‘And that is the source of all my nightmares: I’m always gazed at by those eyes that I didn’t close.’  ibid.  

 

‘But I can feel it, Josh.  Really, I feel it.  Or have I sinned?  I did this to so many people, Josh. [cries] Is it all coming back to me?’  ibid. 

 

 

I would like to be a dictator.  Jimmy Hill: A Man for All Seasons, Jimmy, BBC 2016

 

 

World domination?  That means Fu Manchu.  The Vengeance of Fu Manchu 1967 starring Christopher Lee & Douglas Wilmer & Tsai Chin & Horst Frank & Noel Trevarthen & Maria Rohm et al, director Jeremy Summers

 

 

Kazakhstan: a massive country in central Asia … Nursultan Nazarbayev has been president of Kazakhstan since 1991.  And the funny thing about him is that almost everyone seems to like him.  Ben Zand: Dictatorland I: Kazakhstan, BBC 2017

 

His government doesn’t seem to mind killing people too much.  ibid. 

 

Kazakhstan has masses of oil and gas.  ibid.  

 

Nazarbayev has made it illegal to criticise him.  ibid.  

 

 

They are dictators: and that means they love power, they hate journalists like me, and they are quite frankly ridiculous.  Ben Zand, Dictatorland II: Belarus

 

The country is next door to Poland, slap bang between the EU and Russia.  It’s been ruled since 1994 by President Alexander Lukashenko.  ibid.

 

‘It’s better to be a dictator than to be gay!’  ibid.  Lukashenko

 

He rigs his elections and doesn’t really seem to care if the world knows about it.  And since taking power Lukashenko has rewritten the constitution.  ibid.  

 

 

It’s been ruled since 1996 by President Emomali Rahmon who is also officially known as the Leader of the Nation, and Founder of Peace and National Unity.  Ben Zand in Dictatorland III: Tajikstan, BBC 2017  

 

People in Tajikistan have an average income of just £800 a year.  ibid.    

 

 

Belarus: I dont really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself.  I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.  Alexander Lukashenko 

 

 

The result is that many old certainties appear far less certain, and history shows that in troubled times people often turn to someone who promises they can fix all the problems if only they’re granted supreme power.  And that is the appeal of the dictator.  David Olusoga, A Timewatch Guide: Dictators & Despots, BBC 2019

 

The rise and fall of the most recent dictators followed by  television cameras in ever closer detail.  So why are dictators such an object of fascination?  And does our fascination feed their power?  ibid.

 

Caesar was notoriously vain about his appearance … Even without TV, Julius Caesar hit upon a way of spreading his image throughout the known world.  ibid.

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