Quotes About Authoritarianism

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

We have to continue to resist all attempts to change our constitution.

Law and order is a state responsibility. I can assure you peace will be maintained in Uttar Pradesh.

I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

There is no scope for revolutions coming to Belarus.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

The Munich students provided a spectacular example of resistance put down by the Gestapo;

Himmler was, as he had always been, merely the most extreme, emotionally committed exponent of the orthodoxy of the master race.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of the chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously admistered states in history.

Authoritarianism—the familial, social, and political obsession with order, control, and obedience—is rooted in violence and coercion.

When we ignore the connections between corporal punishments and authoritarianism, however, as most of us generally do, the etiology of authoritarianism is often obscured and the childhood roots of adult authoritarianism remain unnoticed.

Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who's in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.

It's your hypocrisy that's offensive, not your brutality. You're the worst kind of fascists. The kind that think they're liberals.

On the contrary. In this case I think there's every chance the republic would fall apart if the legal process was observed.

Hanoi was cruel to its own citizens; it was cruel to our citizens; law and human rights are bourgeois concepts for which the Communists in Hanoi had little respect.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.

We live in very volatile times. And it is super necessary that all of us resist this move toward the militarization and establishment of a more and more authoritarian regime, not just in the United States but in Europe and elsewhere.

I voted for you during your last election.

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.