Quotes About Authoritarianism

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Military aid to Ukraine represented a rare point of bipartisan consensus in Trump's Washington—supported by liberals who disdained Putin's reactionary authoritarianism and by conservatives who wanted to check, as in Soviet days, Russian expansionism. Trump saw the military aid in a different way—as the most compelling form of leverage to use on Zelensky.

Unless you can start some worldwide crime wave, I haven't the strength to defy him.

He many a time spoke sternly to me about my pertness; and averred that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed

Silence! said the ruffian. To the devil with your clamour!

Education is the biggest threat to authoritarianism.

C'est en cet instant de gloire que le raïs prononça l'arrêt de mort de l'Égypte cosmopolite et libérale.

Ainsi, par son action en Égypte, Churchill a favorisé l'émergence du nationalisme arabe dans sa version autoritaire et xénophobe ; et par son action en Iran, il a pavé la voie à l'islamisme khomeyniste.

Mas, sendo o Exército uma administração como a Agricultura, as Finanças ou a Instrução Pública, não se concebe como possa existir uma justiça militar, quando não existe uma justiça agrícola, nem justiça financeira, nem justiça universitária. Toda justiça privada está em oposição aos princípios do direito moderno.

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need to surmount.

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.