Quotes About Authoritarianism

It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.

In practice the democratic 'revolutionary' type of discipline is more reliable than might be expected.

The dull rhythmic tramp of the soldiers' boots formed the background to Goldstein's bleating voice.

Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.

Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.

En otras palabras: defender la democracia incluye destruir todo pensamiento independiente.

without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations—not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

referring to Russian commissars as "half-gramophones, half-gangsters.

overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood has shown for both the safety of women and the rule of law.

Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn taken by the party of Abraham Lincoln toward racial prejudice, authoritarianism, and mercantilism.

Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Because of capitalism, Lissa. Because of your fathers and what they do." "Sir, that's sexist! Some of our mothers might be capitalists too.

Even if an Arab uprising was somehow launched, Prüfer suggested in his usual trenchant way, it would receive little mass support "due to the frivolousness of the population.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.