Quotes About Authoritarianism

It was not the Great Depression that brought the Nazis to power in Germany but rather hyperinflation, which destroyed the middle class by making its savings worthless.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Russia is classic fascism.

We can't have the DNC deciding how big companies behave. That's called fascism.

It's these leftwing people, who always put themselves above the rest, who are fascists.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

I don't want to work for the government, the president's administration, the State Duma, or the Federation Council.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the government has to vote for us - there's no other choice.

I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

One of the biggest problems with this THAAD deployment decision was that it lacked democratic procedure, and it has resulted in a wide division of the nation and aggravated foreign relations.

As I reflect on the successes and failures of our push for democracy, reading widely in search for a path out of authoritarian rule, I'll keep writing to encourage myself and those on my side.

Nazism is still widespread in the West.

There's this tendency to be held in great esteem if you are judgmental. A sort of moral policing, being opinionated. What right has one to act like judges? What right has one to police another?

Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.

Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve in the near future.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.

Far from curbing terror, we find that draconian laws used by a corrupt and communal police are creating conditions which will only exacerbate the problem.

It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.