Dictators Quote by Masha Gessen Download Open image “Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.” — Masha Gessen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dictators Overconfident Power Stay
To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see who mindlessly… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
I suppose anyone who calls a dictator a dictator is 'dangerous' and 'imbalanced.' — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the church. That's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try to find… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that matters but… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function. — Nawaz Sharif Copy Share Image
You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps,… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves. — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
America does not stand with dictators, and we never will and we shall never. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world -… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world. — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
