Age Quote by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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

— Masha Gessen

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and…

— George Ayittey

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office

— Mohamed Nasheed

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

— Garry Kasparov

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 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

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent,…

— Susan Stebbing

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

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the…

— Gene Sharp

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

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

— Jalal Talabani

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of…

— Walter Lippmann