Quotes About Authoritarianism

Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

companies which make vaccines would not be averse to their products being made compulsory. I understand that. I would like my books to be made compulsory reading. Politicians

that more and more countries will make vaccination compulsory. This will happen quickly. Massachusetts, in the USA, passed a law whereby the police can break in and give you a flu shot or put you in jail if you refuse. In

Long standing medical tyranny is about to be extended and to become food tyranny.

fear that the police have made a huge personal and professional mistake. They have become foot soldiers for the forces of evil.

Camus (Albert) 'The welfare and safety of the people is always the alibi of the tyrant.

The revolution died a self-inflicted death in 1918 with the establishment of the Cheka.

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope - an ideology of hate - excuse me - with an ideology of hope.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

mixing cajolery with lies, threats, and violence. The Reichstag fire provided them with apparently good reasons for pushing through an emergency decree

sullen earnestness, their authoritarianism, their self-conceit, and their vicious political ideas.

partial to men, a somewhat precarious position given that Mugabe had denounced gays as 'lower than pigs and dogs', declared them to be 'a colonial invention, unknown in African tradition', and passed laws punishing consensual homosexuality with ten years' hard labour.

Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

I believe he's got a lot of courage to write that book. If the Axis had lost the war, we'd be able to say and write anything we wanted, like we used to; we'd be one country and we'd have a fair legal system, the same one for all of us.

Typical of their mania for the trivial, their legalistic fascination with documents, proclamations, ads.

Take warn­ing, Miller! The Board has reports on your eccentricities.

He had very few dealings with the government. That was neither a virtue nor a vice; it was simply good luck.

Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.

The regime of social justice, of which the left dreams, is a regime that by its very nature must crush individual freedom.

Islamophobia is the perfect totalitarian doctrine as it is the first step in outlawing freedom of speech — and therefore freedom itself — in the name of religious tolerance.

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism ... .