Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Robinson

(Late Philippine dictator Ferdinand) Marcos is a good example, Mr. (Manuel) Noreiga of Panama. But this is all way after the fact. They don't get into the game soon enough to really make a difference.

George Ayittey

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

George Ayittey

The only good dictator is a dead one.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Kevin McCarthy

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We can call it Isratine.

Margaret Thatcher

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed-but they can never be appeased.

Paul Wolfowitz

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Karl Popper

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Caroline Corr

That tour we did in early '97, we did like 4 continents in 3 weeks. We were so jet lagged that it all canceled out. I am like an entire day behind.

Edmund Barton

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

Jeff McNeely

Europe is probably doing better than most continents in protecting diversity but is not yet doing enough.

Granth Sahib

You may enjoy the pleasures of hundreds of thousands of women, and rule the nine continents of the world. But without the True Guru, you will not find peace; you will be reincarnated over and over again.

Tracy Morgan

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

George Will

Even the continents drift.

Reynolds Price

I said to one of my students a couple of years ago, what is it with you people? You never get off the phone to one another, you travel through whole continents to be with one another for 14 hours. And he said, Mr. Price, we had to invent families of our own, our own families disappeared.

Yelena Baturina

The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.

Yanis Varoufakis

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.