Confidence Quote by Gene Sharp

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

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

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

— Masha Gessen

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

— Stanley Baldwin

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

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

— Robert Ringer

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can…

— Wendell Willkie

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.

— Max Boot

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

— Harry S Truman

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

— Jalal Talabani

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj