Enemy Quote by Natan Sharansky

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

— Richard Perle

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

— Mahathir Mohamad

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

— Richard Perle

All governments require enemy governments.

— Edward Abbey

Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't…

— William J. Clinton

“Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. That abandonment…

— Gene Sharp

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

— Edward Abbey

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and…

— Benjamin Harrison