Quotes About Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is evil, anti-social, anti-human and ultimately anti-God (for self-deifying pride is at its heart), and I have nothing to say in its favor.11

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

She was so steeped in wickedness that she promulgated laws permitting others to act as she herself did, in order to annul the stigma that would otherwise have been attached to her.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.

The color revolution virus affects only weak countries. Belarus does not have any breeding ground for this.

The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

The cost of Colonel Gaddafi's rule on Libyan society is incalculable.

What we're trying to do is to look at the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Xi for who they really are.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

St. Kitts' government is much more libertarian compared with the U.S. It's not even close.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

I myself hate the communist North Korean system. That doesn't mean I should let the people in the North suffer under an oppressive regime.

Social policy that is coercive is the beginning of a police state.

No doubt life was hard for him—born with the instincts of a Hitler or Stalin in a country where people are determined to do their own voting.

Os casais que concebem filhos que não desejam refletem os casais que querem filhos mas não podem ter. O problema destes últimos tem sido resolvido pelos ginecologistas com menor alarde e esforço. As pessoas autoritárias fazem mais objeções ao fato de as outras fazerem o que elas acham que não deve ser feito, ao invés de procurar realizar o que acham que devem.

But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism.