Quotes About Authoritarianism

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a 'total government.' In short, we've got totalitarian government.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.