Quotes About Authoritarianism

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God.

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Due to enhanced freedom to police, the law and order situation in the state has improved.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

Although some religious traditions may promote inner detachment vis-à-vis political systems, most religions tend to be politically conservative and nationalistic and Zen has been no exception in this regard.

Inequality, corruption, oligarchy, and authoritarianism are inseparable. They must be understood as part of the same system, and fought in the same way.

The rise to power of a right-wing lunatic in a free election in Germany.

Today in America, more than 2 million people are in jail, disproportionately black, Latino, and Native American. That is a greater number of inmates than in any other country on earth—including China, which has a population four times greater than ours and an authoritarian government that does not tolerate dissent.

What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

For the first time in modern history, anti-Semitism became governmental policy.

I am usually insubordinate. I don't take orders that I know are stupid or illegal.

But as we've seen throughout history, utopian philosophies are impossible to impose and totalitarianism is often the result

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.