Quotes About Authoritarianism

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

What is a liberal-democratic philistine? An empty gut, filled with cowardice.

It is not surprising that the author is driven to the conclusion that "the French Republic is a financial monarchy"; "it is the complete domination of the financial oligarchy; the latter dominates over the press and the government."[9]

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

Ideological tyranny. It's the disease of the century. The ideology institutionalizes the pathology.

in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose.

In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.

Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something.

mercilessly by the judge who dismisses the charges as "utterly without merit, based on manufactured evidence

It seemed that the political elites were striving, with admiration for George Orwell and rare unanimity, to ensure that the totalitarian state in the novel 1984 would be realized no later than fifty years after the author predicted.

it's probably the Russian military, in which you're allowed to smile only when you shoot someone or successfully invade another country.

No appeals to its outmoded constitution can change that. Japan must rearm and take its rightful place in the world.

Sodom resembled twentieth-century totalitarian regimes, where state employees were stationed in apartment buildings to monitor everyone who entered the building, a level of oppression those fortunate to live in free societies have difficulty fathoming.

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy, dubious as its moral underpinning might be

What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

Since you were begotten and nurtured and educated under us, dare you once to say you are not our offspring and servant, you and your fathers before you!" These are words which do not impress us as any thing extraordinary; for the same thing has long been on the lips of Bushido, with this modification, that the laws and the state were represented with us by a personal being. Loyalty is an ethical outcome of this political theory.