Help find similar quotes? related: Voters upset choosing between the two US oligarch partys “get over yourselves” said Hillary.
I thought this would make a good post if I could find 3 or 4 quotes from modern autocrat leaders, and also historic autocratic leaders. Iconic like Bush’s “mission accomplished” and other poigniant sound-bite sentences that boils down the very essence on out-of-touch dictator lackeys just spewing utterly inane nothings at a time of historic social change.
“Nothing will fundamentally change” has got to be up there on the list.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
speaking to a group of coal miners in 2019
Holy shit really
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I will preserve the principle of Autocracy as firmly and unflinchingly as my late father.
Not so great prediction from ol Nicholas the II
Another Iron Lady banger (emphasis mine):
I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
I’m thinking…
Beer brewed around, is used to make beer around, is wuzzafaduh ooh Earth rider, thanks for the Great Lakes (Biden, at Earth Rider brewery)
Then there’s:
Wolfgang Schäuble, the former German finance minister, put it, that ‘elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy’. (Something something, the E.U imposed austerity onto Greece, against the will of Yanis and the people there)
