P. J. O'Rourke | "It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video."

"It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Dictatorship, Art, Frustration, Power

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"It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video."

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"It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video."

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"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."

Author Name

Personal Development

Author Name

Personal Development

"We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."

Children

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible."

Woman

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."

Death

"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."

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"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

Government

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

People

"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."

May

"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

Nothing

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy."

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"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

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