Quotes About Authoritarianism

The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.

What mattered such little things when the very foundation of civilization, white supremacy, was threatened?

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

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

Mussolini's insistence on public morality, belief in the inferior role of women, and the ban on contraception and abortion made the fascists palatable to the church.85

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

These monstrous views,... these venomous teachings.

Two of the most energetic pro-lifers of all time were Hitler and Stalin — who immediately upon taking power criminalized previously legal abortions. Mussolini, Ceau?escu, and countless other nationalist dictators and tyrants have done likewise. Of course, this is not by itself a pro-choice argument, but it does alert us to the possibility that being against abortion may not always be part of a deep commitment to human life.

Yeah, okay, that's how I was leaning. I thought about Oberon, how she ran her department, all those cops—and used her handpicked to run her dirty cop sideline.

The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention.

These limitations and restraints were laws. To be obedient to them was to escape hurt and make for happiness.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

Politically, China suppresses its people, but because the government allows some freedom in economic matters, business has become the ultimate expression of individuality.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.