Quotes About Authoritarianism

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.

Toate sentimentele mi se par inutile, f?cînd ca lucrurile s? se termine r?u. ViaÈ›a poate fi mult mai simpl? dac? abolim emomÈ›iile. Dar nu trebuie s? te educ, Shmuel. Poate te mulÈ›umeÈ™ti cu faptul c?, în general, te tolerez într-o m?sur? mai mare sau mai mic?, iar din cînd în cînd apar È™i momente ceva mai bune decît acesta.

It has often been suggested that Chinese-style, market-oriented reforms are the solution to the North Korean problem.

I think everyone would recognize that we were in the middle of a fascist uprising.

The key to understanding liberals is that "It is the need not of liberty, but of servitude that is always predominant in the soul of crowds."16

At this point in their history, give most Muslims the freedom to vote, and they will freely vote to tear out their political freedoms by the root.

How little this is the state of our country, needs not to be told. The edicts of an English academy would, probably, be read by many, only that they may be sure to disobey them.

And I hold with Spinoza (I hope he won't mind) that to demand what is impossible for any human being, to exercise power where it can't be exercised, is tyranny.

No military state, no civil war in the streets. Just the erosion of any kind of certainty. Everyone unsure. Making up his own explanations.

I am the great terror of the squires, they seem to be seized with a sort of bucolic mania in dealing with me.

For it is a   moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as   right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to   others.         

The neutrality that compels to follow only particular guidelines and rules is a professional and dictatorial verdict, not according to the actual context of neutrality.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

In Soviet eyes the definition of 'fascist' included anyone who did not follow the orders of the Communist Party.

Stalin, whose bullying nature contained a strong streak of cowardice

That the Soviet regime was almost as unforgiving towards its own soldiers as towards the enemy is demonstrated by the total figure of 13,500 executions, both summary and judicial, during the battle of Stalingrad.

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

It's a sociological law that the more information you give people, the more government policy becomes dependent on public opinion.' Those were the words of Rafael Safarov,

The machinery of the Revolution was not to be halted, and like Saturn it devoured its own children.

It's true — we have no proof, or rather no concrete proof, against you. But we do have the conviction that you are a potential enemy of the Revolution. For us, that is enough.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.