Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Advanced age makes the ambition for dictatorship improbable.
- In plain terms
- Why would I become a dictator at my age?
- What can you take from it?
- Age limits ambition for absolute power.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What motivates power seeking?
Another view
Some dictators rose at old age.
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