Quotes About Authoritarianism

And with this, the transformation of Russia back into the USSR was, for all Putin's intents and purposes, complete.

Fascism and communism were and are religions of the state.

Economists are quick to speak of 'market failure', and rightly so, but a greater threat comes from 'government failure'.

From the perspective of today, or from that of a Cobden-Mill-Smith liberal, there is not a great deal of difference between the various -isms of the twentieth century. Communism, fascism, nationalism, corporatism, protectionism, Taylorism, dirigisme – they are all centralising systems with planning at their heart.

the usual looters' slogan of 'public welfare

A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.

I don't know what they did to him to make him sign, but I know that it must have been something terrible. Everybody thinks so. Everybody's whispering about it, wondering what sort of pressure was used on him. .

the hostility of tyrants to imagination and ideas—is as relevant as ever.

Of course, all murderers and all oppressors have a long list of grievances against their victims, only most are not as eloquent as Humbert Humbert.

He ticked off the "four factions" he believed were behind the protests: the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and Hamas. Neither of these leaders' analyses stood up to scrutiny.

algunos de los regímenes más despiadados y autoritarios del mundo han exigido de sus súbditos un optimismo irredento y un constante buen humor.

Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail.

Yet Haq was also an outspoken nationalist. His dream was that once the Taliban was overthrown, it would be replaced by a regime free of all outside influence.

The shah did not tolerate dissent and repressed opposition newspapers, political parties, trade unions, and civic groups. As a result, the only place Iranian dissidents could find a home was in mosques and religious schools

Fulfillment of Central Committee directives became Stalin's mantra, and suspicion of non-fulfillment, his obsession.

member parties were ordered to organize along Leninist lines to combat "petit-bourgeois deviation

Stalin's rudeness was in service to the cause. His rudeness was zeal

Almost all rightists believed that autocracy ipso facto ruled out opposition, which of course ruled out their own opposition.

Stalin's moods were becoming almost as difficult to parse as the intentions of the Soviet Union's external enemies.

Stolypin, frowned on the public "disorder" of political mobilization, and wanted politics to return from the street to the corridors of power.

When armed squads confiscated eight bulls, seven cows, four calves, three horses, thirty-six tons of wheat, a cart, a threshing machine, and a mill from B. Bondarenko of Aktyubinsk province, while sentencing him to a year in prison, he asked the presiding judge to provide an explanation for the basis of his conviction because he was not guilty of a crime.

Lenin suggested that all peasants be compelled to deliver grain by name, and that those who failed to do so "be shot on the spot.

legítimas, rápidas, justas, moderados y humanas diferencian sus consejos de la retórica de la mano dura contra la delincuencia preferida por los políticos de derechas.

Beneficial historical developments often create losers together with the winners, and the apparent economic losers of globalization (namely the lower classes of rich countries) are often said to be the supporters of authoritarian populism. For