Quotes About Authoritarianism

All government wars are unjust.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.

the best cure for Communist ideals is to live, even for a short time, under a Communist regime.

I think that's amazing progress!" "Her progress or lack of progress is none of your business. You understand? She's my daughter. I get to make those choices for her, not some small-town librarian who barely knows either of us.

Nationalism, coupled with great faith in the power of the government to enact domestic bargains between labor and capital, has been seen before: it was called fascism then.

Society suffers when any of the pillars weakens or strengthens overly relative to the others. Too weak the markets and society becomes unproductive, too weak a democratic community and society tends toward crony capitalism, too weak the state and society turns fearful and apathetic. Conversely, too much market and society becomes inequitable, too much community and society becomes static, and too much state and society becomes authoritarian. A balance is essential!

Indeed, as we will see in the book, healthy communities are essential for sustaining vibrant market democracies. This is perhaps why authoritarian movements like fascism and communism try to replace community consciousness with nationalist or proletarian consciousness.

Finally, the people in industrial democracies, engaged in their communities and thereby organized socially and politically, enforce the necessary separation between markets and the state through their democratic voice. They do so because they want sufficient political and economic competition that the economy does not descend into authoritarianism or cronyism.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.

nepotism and despotism will lasts only for a short while. For like a dead fish in the heat of the mid-day sun it is bound to rot and spoil

Communist interpretation is never wrong. Logicians will object in vain that a theory which exempts itself from all refutations escapes from the order of truth.

In a spectacle of cowardice and political opportunism, the politicians support Hitler and pass a new law.

Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.