Quotes About Authoritarianism

fortunately all governments will fall the only ones which won't fall are the good ones and the good ones don't yet exist

nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.

She'd come to find civil administration more interesting than war. It's certainly more complicated.

If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

the system which is in control in Argentina and most of the world is nothing less that the best democracy which money can buy, allied with drug trafficking and organized crime. The sad conclusion, then, is that the worst which this "democracy" has in store for us is corrupt government; the best it has to offer is government by millionaires.

No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.

It might benefit all of us to realise that systematically forcing the individual to misplace their attention is a hallmark of fascism

Ben de counting began and it became clear that ErdoÄŸan would not win, the Higher Electoral Board changed the election law from 1 hour to the next, following pressure from the later himself, and egregious fake votes for ErdoÄŸan were deemed valid.

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Technology adds a new dimension to the process by providing modern despots with instruments far more efficient than any available to their classical counterparts.

Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.

The law that I have preached… and the discipline that I have established, will be your master after my disappearance.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom. Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.

He insulted the more distinguished of the captives who came before him for judgment

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE features of the Augustan regime was that speech remained free.

Nor was there much mercy toward Julia: Augustus sent her into exile;

Communism is not a creation of the masses to overthrow the Banking establishment, but rather a creation of the Banking establishment to overthrow and enslave the people.