Quotes About Authoritarianism

His policy of aggression was stated clearly on the very first page. Yet even though every German couple had to purchase a copy on marriage, few seem to have taken his bellicose predictions seriously.

Two other axes of conflict emerged: state centralism against regional independence and authoritarianism against the freedom of the individual. The

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Every authoritarian party regards thought as a danger and reflection as a crime.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics.

These were, on various unimportant charges, sent to jail or, later, to concentration camps—which were also jails, but the private jails of the M.M.'s, unshackled by any old-fashioned, nonsensical prison regulations.

He was irritated by her self-election to superiority; he was bothered by her desire to have this new suitor consider her superior.

Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.

To Live In The Midst Of Communist Society Is To Unashamedly Proclaim A Life Of Holiness

There are thirty-two closed-circuit television cameras near the flat where George Orwell wrote 1984. The night watchman standing guard at the gate has become the nanny inside the home and the office, hanging over your shoulder in the kitchen, sitting room, boardroom, and even bedroom. But it is not a very good nanny.

If the situation was hopeless, their propoganda would be unessasary

Either there will be a coup d'état, or we will have Muslim extremism.

Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!

Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one--if he had the power--would be justified in silencing mankind.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths, equally justified and provisional. There is an underlying polytheism in liberal democracy (call it an unconscious polytheism); conversely, every authoritarian regime partakes of a disguised monotheism.

Singolare e straordinaria è la brevità del tempo impiegato dal fascismo per conquistare il potere. Il partito bolscevico aveva 14 anni quando conquistò il potere con un colpo di Stato nel 1917.

Men took themselves so seriously and seemed to insist on arguing even the most trivial points.

yet he represented that emotional choice a people makes to satisfy its craving for a leader.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

Southern racists were able to protect murderers only because their legislators exploited fears of centralized power.

I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.