Quotes About Authoritarianism

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

how liberal democracy, already weakened at its own hand, is being undermined by the enforced negation of its principles by the onslaught of terrorism.

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

when they rebelled a decade later, the king had 4,500 of them beheaded on the banks of the River Weser.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

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

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

This is not even the stuff dictators are made of, but this is the kind of madness which is often not found out until it is too late.' Campion

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.