Believe Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let…

— Wadah Khanfar

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what…

— Madeleine Albright

“In some cases, however, limited violence against the dictatorship may be inevitable. Frustration and hatred of the regime may explode into violence. Or, certain…

— Gene Sharp

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined…

— Colin Powell

There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many…

— Richard Armitage

“All of us sit here at this conference and feel secure in our belief that we live in an era beyond this kind of…authoritarian…

— Margret Atwood

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being…

— Ivan Krastev

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

— Karl Popper

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it…

— Wael Ghonim

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and…

— Alexander Lukashenko