Quotes About Authoritarianism

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

once known sprang to his mind: The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. It

Rien drew back among the other upstairs maids, twisting the polishing cloth between her hands, but started when Head's hand fell upon her.

The Freeporters were violently oppressed to social controls of all sorts. Even-especially?-healthy ones.

Hers was the unconscious tyranny of inexorable great expectations.

It was Lenin, not Stalin, who turned his utopian dream of a new Communist global order into a living nightmare.

Neither the Mensheviks nor the SRs made any protest at this clearly repressive political action—

We have been trained to think of Machiavelli as the apologist for power politics. In fact, his passion for the ideal of liberty was so strong

America, the totem of modern democratic culture, was actually "latently" fascist. The absence of a "genuine" fascist movement in America, like the absence of any "genuine" anti-Semitism, was in fact a sign of how far the corruption had spread. As Herbert Marcuse put it somewhat later, "The fact that we cannot point to an SS or SA here, simply means that they are not necessary in this country."48

with the Bolshevik-dominated soviets around the country as their tool for enforcement—the first true totalitarian regime in history.

No hay teoría revolucionaria sin práctica revolucionaria, camarada mayor. —La libertad de lectura es algo tan precioso que debe ser racionada, camarada comisario.

Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own lightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

Bootlickers are ready to stand in a row without shame to bow before him on his arrival and share the stage or podium to extract some undue business favour from him.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.

For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government.

When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts...

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.