Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. Richard Perle
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. William Beveridge
Fashion designers are dictators of taste. Karl Lagerfeld
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 Manguel
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. Hindi Proverb