Quotes About Authoritarianism

Well, you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're all fucking peasants As far as I can see

In the Trump years, Republicans have sent a message that lying is useful and productive, racism is acceptable, the press is the enemy, and a strong-man authoritarian head of government is the ideal.

In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.

equality ends with the Creation, and that all attempts to enshrine this equality in our government and enforce it through legislation must be treated as abominations to G-d [sic] that verge on Sovietism"…

The "social justice" movement is not at all about social justice, but about relentlessly bullying anyone who does not subscribe to their Stalinist ideology.

No pueden hablar de democracia quienes se niegan a defender la autonomía individual frente a supuestos valores colectivos que no son sino la sujeción a dogmas y a ideologías autoritarias.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Centrally, I cannot interfere in states.

I'm not a big fan of government interference in most matters.

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism

Between 1964 and 1985, the military killed about 325 suspected leftists, while more than 1,500 were tortured, according to later estimates by Amnesty International.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Historically, polarization and populism--and their close traveling companions, extremism and authoritarianism--emerge from the politics of cultural despair.

Men, therefore, are nothing but raw material. It is not for them to will their own improvement. They are not capable of it; according to Saint Just, it is only the legislator who is.

No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. — Thomas Jefferson

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.

Nice, liberal democratic governments—that were started by a bunch of lads with guns and the immense desire to run things in a manner more beneficial to themselves.