Quotes About Authoritarianism

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they're the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries.

Although BJP and Congress are two sides of same coin, BJP is far more communal. Since BJP came to power, there is an atmosphere of hatred, and there is a takeover of the democratic institutions.

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who is a spectacular talent. That book is a work of art.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

Of all the things that made the Third Reich a modern dictatorship, its incessant demand for popular legitimation was one of the most striking.

Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive.

There was a stubborn strain of authoritarianism in More that embarrasses some of his modern admirers. Having never revolted against his own father, he could be merciless to those who dared to rebel against the surrogate fathers that every society raises as a standard of order in the world.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

I hate the Communist system but I love the men. I hate the sin but I love the sinner.

That," I told Tatiana, "is the most fucked up law I have ever heard." [...] "You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!" I yelled back.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Democrats were being rounded up, sentenced by drumhead courts-martial (provost's tribunals, they were called) and executed on the spot—laser, gunfire, some hangings.

think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

But procedure is procedure," I said. "Un-huh." "Why I left the cops," I said. "You left the cops because they canned your ass for being an insubordinate fucking hot dog," Healy said. "Well, yeah," I said. "That too.

In Iraq, order, even of totalitarian dimensions, turned out to be more humane than the lack of order that followed.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know." ? Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

policymakers think a world police state for a few decades or so

the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right wing destroyed books. The left destroys authors. —William Wilde Curringer, Unfinished Memoirs

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.