Quotes About Authoritarianism

Amid the luxurious freshness of Ipanema each building has its own secret police.

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.

California always struck me as a police state.

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and have no time for institutionalised mythmaking - whether from the authoritarian right or the liberal left.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

Anti-people policies of the BJP government have made strong opposition a necessity.

For us, the government of Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro is not a government that allows democratic plurality. It does not allow for there to be a real opposition, and that is not democratic.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.

Kijkend naar Vanhecke besefte je eens te meer wat de beknopte definitie van fascisme is. Mannelijke hysterie.

Nazism and use the alliance among Fascists to steer the Nazis away from the racial policies.

In a world where authoritarianism of the left or right is a very real possibility, the question of whether ordinary people can govern themselves by consent is still on trial--as it always has been, and always will be. Beyond parliamentary democracy as we know it, we shall have to find a new popular democracy to replace it.

ask . . . what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.

Allra mest tyckte jag om att få var svinaktig med Hitler og Stalin.

Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient so- lutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people. Authoritarian countries become corrupt; corrupt countries become poor; and poor countries are weak.