Quotes About Authoritarianism

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, "Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable identity, and its absolute character can maneuver the self into an unyielding position. In this respect, it is the internal mirror of political authoritarianism, the tyrant inside the self … an internal domination as deadly as any external tyranny.

And it is precisely the determination to get rid of white rule which seems to be spreading like wild-fire over the brown world to-day.

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

The Hitler Experience was made possible as a result of group consciousness. Many people want to say that Hitler manipulated a group—in this case, his countrymen—through the cunning and the mastery of his rhetoric.

never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.

Sería más acertado hablar de «nihilismo islámico», o quizá «bolchevismo islámico», pues no debemos olvidar que en sus primeros años Lenin y Stalin fueron también terroristas. En

Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?

With good reason, Joseph Goebbels described radio as 'the spiritual weapon of the totalitarian state'. Stalin might have added that the telephone was God's gift to eavesdroppers.

Fascism is very much a mob movement.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps, and are rolling out a new and insidious colonialism around the world with their rapacious belt and road infrastructure program. Which side are you on, Britain? Canada? The EU? You choose.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.