Quotes About Authoritarianism

There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

the Nazis confiscated firearms to prevent armed resistance, whether individual or collective, to their own criminality.

The paradigm that government should have a monopoly of small arms implies the surreal normative postulate that citizens—or, rather, subjects—should be treated as the Jews were in Nazi Germany.

The riot screws didn't give a monkey's about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.

militant Fascism was a natural ally of extortion.

Dictators never accepted failure. They preferred to have their mistakes forgotten, overshadowed with spectacle.

Police in a one-party state have a more or less simple task. If people criticize the government, they are either harassed or arrested. The system is clear-cut and well understood by arresters and arrested alike. Things get more complicated when citizens become implausibly loyal.

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.

Co to takiego – je?li kto? zaczyna rozmow?, musi si? to bezwzgl?dnie zako?czy? aresztowaniem?

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and simple truths to make the multitudes understand, to provoke collective tears.

Ponía la misma cara que ponían en aquella ´época todos los comunistas. Como si tuvieran un contrato secreto con el mismísimo futuro y estuvieran autorizados a actuar en su nombre.

Commies love concrete.

We seem to have entered precariously into a kind of totalitarianism that actually abhors free speech and punishes people for revealing their true selves. In other words: the actor's dream.