Able Quote by George Ayittey

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

— Alessandra Mussolini

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, 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

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

— Gene Sharp

I suppose anyone who calls a dictator a dictator is 'dangerous' and 'imbalanced.'

— Asma Jahangir

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

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the…

— Rudy Giuliani

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 are interesting, no?

— Martin Parr

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

— Margaret Thatcher

“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

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not…

— Alexander Lukashenko