Quotes About Authoritarianism

No] social principle in the world is more foolish and dangerous than the rapidly rising notion that hurtful words and ideas are a form of violence or torture (e.g., "harassment") and that their perpetrators should be treated accordingly. That notion leads to the criminalization of criticism and the empowerment of authorities to regulate it. The new sensitivity is the old authoritarianism in disguise, and it is just as noxious.

The Hebrew Bible is a sustained protest against empires and their attempt to impose a human unity on God's created diversity.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Whether one believed the reports depended not only on the credibility of the broadcaster but also on one's own experiences with the Nazi regime.

freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God.

They would brilliantly co-opt the conservatives and the Christian churches, and when they had the power to do so, they would turn on them too.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Whenever rules or guidance threatened the interests of favored groups, political pressure followed.

The attempt [by the far-left] to boil down fascism to 'anything I don't like' is simply idiotic. Which is more fascist: Christina Hoff Sommers coming to speak about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force? That seems a little more fascist to me.

Authoritarians rarely recognize their own authoritarianism. To them, authoritarianism looks like simple virtue.

socialist programs that discourage hard work and favor reliance on the government.

Because buried in authoritarianism is always one deep flaw: its insecurity. If authoritarians had broad and deep support, they wouldn't require compulsion. The dirty secret of our woke authoritarians is that they are the minority. You are the majority.

Fascism is not an article for export.

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.

Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

Qaddafi may rail endlessly about foreign meddling, but the reaction of Western governments clearly matters to his regime.

It's one thing to say you're feminist, but then what does that mean? Not selling arms to a regime that is the most repressive and probably one of the worst human rights violators, particularly towards women, like Saudi Arabia?

In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.