Berlin Quote by Salman Rushdie

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

— Masha Gessen

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

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

— Robert Kiyosaki

This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.

— Juan Guaido

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

— Elliott Abrams

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Gene Sharp

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many…

— Augusto Pinochet

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not…

— Vladimir Putin