Dictatorship Quote by Richard Perle

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

— Richard Perle

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

— Margaret Atwood

People don't start wars, governments do.

— Ronald Reagan

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

— Natan Sharansky

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

— Gene Sharp

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

— Wole Soyinka

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of…

— Natan Sharansky

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

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be…

— Ronald Reagan

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

— Edmund Burke

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

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

— George W. Bush