Quotes About Authoritarianism

Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. "Your love for him has damaged your senses.""And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence

The ecclesiastics were, practically speaking, surrogates of the State.

Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.

He had been, and in some respects always would be, a defender of established order. Imperialism would never be a pejorative for [Churchill]," Manchester observed.

The world is not a source of enjoyment; it is a place of tyranny, and every aspect of the world is a form of tyranny (Gal. 4:8).

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

She gave Stalin the letter and asked him to deliver it; for a moment, at least, one of the great murderers of the twentieth century played mailman for a young girl in love.

It is no longer left versus right. It is authoritarianism versus freedom.

The endgame of these sociopathic social engineers isn't non-binary sexuality. It is non-binary reality with them defining and profiting from it

Authoritarians are frustrated authors. Frustrated authors not of books but of their own lives. They are soulless, unimaginative and nihilistic cowards afraid of their own and other peoples freedom.

Closed minds lead to the opening of concentration camps and gulags.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Immediately after their seizure of power, the Nazis expelled from the theatres all who were known for their progressive ideas.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Are Shareem slaves?" she asked. Slavery had been outlawed for millennia on Ariel, but she knew that some planetary systems still practiced it. "No," Talan said quickly. "Well," Rio drawled. "We can be if you want.

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