Quotes About Authoritarianism

Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism's raison d'être, the function Hitler himself kept referring to when he talked about saving the industrialists and bankers from Bolshevism.

During the years of Stalin's reign, the Soviet nation made dramatic gains in literacy, industrial wages, health care, and women's rights.

Fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles.

This also turns out to be a pretty good summary of the drug war, which, besides doing so much to erode our liberties and fill our prisons, served to distract us from reckoning the true toll of the opiates we happened to classify as legal.

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.

One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

Food was similarly regulated, with restrictions placed on how many courses one might eat, depending on status.

Though the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools, I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

There's some things where he's already reached the conclusion and it doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't matter what arguments you offer. He's not listening.

The true state--- it is hardly necessary to say this---does not admit the rule of parties (partitocrazia) of democratic regimes.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

Ask any of your elders and they will tell you: Trujillo might have been a dictator, but, he was a Dominican dictator, which is another way of saying he was the number-one bellaco in the country.

He was our Sauron, our Arawn, our Darkseid, our Once and Future Dictator, a personaje so outlandish, so perverse, so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made his ass up.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

He harshly criticized Soviet tyranny, but lamented the fact that so many Americans were willing to sacrifice their civil liberties in the name of anticommunism.

What-you're Smoke Knights! Stop this at once!" "Oh, do shut up, Your Highness.

Libya. A Tunisian street vendor setting himself aflame to protest police brutality in December 2010 ushered in what has become known as the Arab Spring. Mass demonstrations protesting longstanding authoritarian rule in Egypt, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, and Libya in 2011 stirred national and international debates.

I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.

I don't want anything to affect my freedom, and we don't want Saudi Arabia to be another Iran.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

County jail in some ways can be the most dangerous because it's often the least regulated.

If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.