Quotes About Authoritarianism

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.

I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.

There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.

In Hitler's words, the propagandist should adopt 'a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with'. He must never admit that he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or, if they become too much of a nuisance, liquidated.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

The love of servitude cannot be established except as the result of a deep, personal revolution in human minds and bodies.

No se corre mucho riesgo apostando a que, dentro de veinte años, todos los países excesivamente poblados y poco desarrollados del mundo estarán bajo una u otra forma de gobierno totalitario, probablemente del Partido Comunista. ¿Cómo

In politics, the near future is likely to be closer to George Orwell's 1984 than to Brave New World.

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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.