The Hands of Dictators!

Is there such a thing as a typical dictator’s hand? There certainly isn’t a typical engineer’s hand or a doctor’s hand. Hands don't reveal professions because people with all kinds of temperaments populate a particular profession. There isn’t even a typical criminal’s hand because there are different types of crimes and different types of criminals!

 

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When it comes to dictators’ hands, the more I study them, the more inclined I am to think that dictators do share some personality traits. Managers have different styles of managing but a dictator has just one style – authoritarian. I have read several hands of authoritarian leaders on this website, like Gaddafi, Morsi, Idi Amin, Hitler and Kim il-jong. So, what is similar about their hands? 

How much better is Mohamed Morsi as compared to Hosni Mubarak?

Mohamed Morsi’s hand can give us some clues about the developments in Egypt and also tell us what kind of person he is. His hands reveal an energetic person, but this energy is not being directed in a positive or productive manner. As a result, there is excitability and unpredictability, changeability and emotional behaviour in the personality. Not good qualities for a leader to have, especially as some unreasonableness is also shown.

Morsi has a large fleshy palm, with medium-length fingers, some of which are bent, and the Jupiter (index) and Mercury (little) fingers are conic and the thumb is thick. The headline is weak and uneven and