Quotes About Authoritarianism

Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.

Glenn Beck did not fall into line. He told his listeners that Trump was a "dictator in the making.

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Lenin had been a risk-taker. Trotsky had been one, too, until Stalin had made him the Bill Gates of the Soviet Union, the excoriated crypto-reactionary.

They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4)

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

the democratic idea' would not necessarily lead to the idea of 'the great protagonist' either; and further, that 'the great protagonists' in the 1930s would be, not a Jefferson or an Adams, but Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler.

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

Are there labor camps here?" he asked. "No," she said. "Mandatory marriages, forced-criticism sessions, loudspeaker?" She shook her head. "Then I'm not sure I could ever feel free here," he said.

In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her.

The nationalization of the masses can be successfully achieved only if, in the positive struggle to win the soul of the people, those who spread the international poison among them are exterminated.

This means that a people cannot be made "national" according to the signification attached to that word by our bourgeois class today - that is to say, nationalism with many reservations- but national in the vehement and extreme sense.

My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.

Gemsons, Cobsons, Dathrohanists or otherwise - it matters not. The sentence for treason against the collective will of the state is numbered in thremblo years.

So long as the paternal plan to make a State functionary contradicted my own inclinations only in the abstract, the conflict was easy to bear.

not continue any longer than is absolutely necessary, since justification for such intervention is found only in the exceptional nature of the situation.415

I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.

Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take away those freedoms, often start with an attack on the freedom to disagree.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.