Quotes About Authoritarianism

You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.

Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe.

When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

The militarization of the police is obviously not a secret. And the militarization of the force is to circumvent Posse Comitatus.

Communism and fascism were born out of frustration with an establishment that still knew royalty and possessed very few of the characteristics we commonly attribute to democracy today.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

Mao Zedong's way was to make people crazy. It was like a religious cult.

You have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

Even if the CCP is willing to stick with 'one country, two systems' in principle, no one can say for certain whether Hong Kong's freedoms of speech and the press would survive in reality.

I think it used to be an accepted leadership tactic to essentially abuse people.

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.