Quotes About Authoritarianism

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.

Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

Dr Howell drank from the special cup which was tied around the handle with red cotton to distinguish the staff cups from those of the patients, and thus prevent the interchange of disease like boredom loneliness authoritarianism.

You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time, they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

If such a state is to be established, it can only be established over our dead bodies.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

But other countries have gone the other way. Australia is now building internment camps for Covid quarantine. It calls them "centers for national resilience."14 George Orwell would be proud.

Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below.

There's a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.