Quotes About Authoritarianism

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

All isms end in fascism.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.