- "Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America it is the businessmen." (America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business (AYN RAND essay in Capitalism The Unknown Ideal published 1966).
- "It makes no difference whether government controls allegedly favor the interests of labor or business, of the poor or the rich, of the special class or a special race: the results are the same. The notion that a dictatorship can benefit any one social group at the expense of others is a worn remnant of the Marxist mythology of class warfare, refuted by half a century of factual evidence. All men are victims and losers under a dictatorship; nobody wins - except the ruling clique." (AYN RAND "The Fascist New Frontier").
DICTATORS AROUND THE WORLD (any missing? SEND THEM TO ME.)
- Kim Jong Il, North Korea, since 1994
- Than Shwe, Burma, since 1992
- Hu Jintao, China, since 2002
- Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, since 1980
- Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, since 1995
- Theodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea, since 1979
- Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan, since 1989
- Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan 1990-2007
- Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedove, Turkmenistan, since 2007
- Fidel Castro, followed by Raul Castro, Cuba since 1959
- King Mswate III, Swaziland, since 1986
- Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, since 2009
- Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Iran, since 1989
- Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, since 1999
- Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan, since 1989
- Isayas Afewerki, Eritrea, since 1991
- Muammar al Qaddafi, Libya, since 1969
- Bashar al-Assad, Syria, since 2000
- Meles zenawi, Ethiopia, since 1995
- Aleksandr Lukashenka, Belarus, since 1994
- Choummaly Sayasone, Laos, since 1981
- Idris Deby, Chad, since 1990
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