Failing Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

— Gordon G. Chang

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

— Masha Gessen

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

— Kofi Annan

The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build…

— Gene Sharp

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war…

— Anne Applebaum

Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.

— Hillary Clinton

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

— Thucydides

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

— Gene Sharp

Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

— Jair Bolsonaro