Quotes About Authoritarianism

The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

The so-called Arab Spring has proved that the fall of a Mubarak-like presidency does not mean the immediate rise of democracy. In spite of this, I am confident that Egypt will not return to an authoritarian governing system again, and that, with some time, it will achieve its democratic goals.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and 'stability.'

In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.

The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu.

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

Putin must stand as the guarantor of media freedom.

An administration that really wanted to win an ideological contest with the Chinese Communist Party would stand up for human rights consistently, rather than calling journalists anywhere 'the enemy of the people.'

Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Ich fürchte nicht die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Faschisten, sondern die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Demokraten.

learned that there is no more heartless saying than that the people get the government they deserve

Fascism is not fashion.