Dictators Quote by Barry Gardiner

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

— Richard Perle

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

— Masha Gessen

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass…

— George Ayittey

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He…

— Winston Churchill

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter…

— George Ayittey

Dictators are interesting, no?

— Martin Parr

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

— Joe Klein

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

— Aldous Huxley

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats…

— Richard W. Sonnenfeldt

Everyone has the opportunity to dictate their own way of life, but not everyone can maintain the power of a dictator.

— Djc