All 20 Uses of
dictate
in
Atlas Shrugged
- You expect to dictate terms by leaving me no choice.†
Chpt 1.4
- She paused to see their pencils ready, then dictated: "Miss Taggart says-quote-I expect to make a pile of money on the John Galt Line.†
Chpt 1.8
- Miss Ives looked as if she was performing a duty of no greater emotional significance than taking dictation about a list of shipping invoices.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- "I object," said Boyle, "to your dictatorial method of-"†
Chpt 2.6
- He had not decided to resign-not really, he thought; he had dictated the letter for a motive which he identified to himself only as "just in case."†
Chpt 2.8
- But suddenly-while pacing the office, dictating to him a list of track-laying materials and where to obtain them illegally-she stopped and looked down at the magazines on the coffee table.†
Chpt 2.8
- She dictated a list of instructions, while pacing her bedroom, gathering her clothes, hastily packing a suitcase.†
Chpt 2.9
- I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward.†
Chpt 3.1
- The shiftless, the purposeless, the irresponsible, the irrational-it was not I who needed them, it was not theirs to dictate terms to me, it was not mine to obey demands.†
Chpt 3.1
- Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.†
Chpt 3.7
- An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.†
Chpt 3.7
- Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator.†
Chpt 3.7
- You proclaim that you cannot survive without us, yet propose to dictate the terms of our survival.†
Chpt 3.7
- You'll be-you'll be the Economic Dictator of the nation!†
Chpt 3.8
- You want me to be the Economic Dictator?†
Chpt 3.8
- I don't want to be an Economic Dictator, not even long enough to issue that order for people to be free-which any rational human being would throw back in my face, because he'd know that his rights are not to be held, given or received by your permission or mine.†
Chpt 3.8
- If you order me to move into the office of an Economic Dictator, I'll move into it.†
Chpt 3.8
- We want you to become a dictator.†
Chpt 3.9
- We demand that you dictate!†
Chpt 3.9
Definitions:
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(dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders
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(dictate as in: dictate a letter) say out loud for the purpose of recording