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.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Now the northern countries which were in their islands were quivering in their bodies. They penetrated the channels of the river mouths [the Nile Delta]. They struggle for breath, their nostrils cease. His Majesty is gone out like a whirlwind against them fighting on the battlefield like a runner, the dread of him and the terror have entered their bodies, they are capsized and overwhelmed where they are. Their heart is taken away and their soul is flown away, their weapons are scattered upon the sea. -Ramasses III, last major Pharoah of the New Kingdom, about the Sea Peoples.

    Later in his reign was the first recorded strike in history, when his tomb builders stopped work due to lack of payment or supply.