Quotes About Authoritarianism

With the Inquisition? But what will they accuse us of?' 'The problem isn't what they accuse us of.' Scharley's voice was extremely gloomy. 'The problem is what we confess to.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Repression is Justine's whole being - repression of sex, of anger and of her own violence; the repressions demanded of Christian virtue, in fact.

had had twenty-six people arrested and thrown into the dungeons for making rude comments about him, and it had never crossed his mind even once to wonder why he had yet to hear something nice being said.

You look at something like Russia, or you look at something like China, where you actually allow free markets to go in. And you haven't seen the change that we, in the western world, would probably like. You still have a bit of a dictatorship - some people would say more than a bit of a dictatorship - in Russia and in China.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Wherever socialism spread, misery followed - and still follows.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.

We will never have Russian-style privatization.

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.