Country Quote by Gene Sharp

“The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship,…

— Gene Sharp

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

— Richard Perle

Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba,…

— Ayn Rand

Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore…

— Thomas Pogge

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

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

— Richard Perle

Every State is a dictatorship.

— Antonio Gramsci

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

— Charlie Chaplin

The truth is that regimes of corrupt, personalist rule - in which authoritarians wield the state to reward friends, punish enemies and secure their…

— Jamelle Bouie

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

— Gene Sharp

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

— Max Boot