Quotes About Authoritarianism

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.