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.

  • davel [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      7 months ago

      Thats the neurotic paradox of conservatism under neoliberalism: society is a thing that doesn’t exist, but also it needs to be protected from foreigners/debauchery/wokeness.

    • charlie@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour.

      there is no such thing as society

      Deeply Unserious