Quotes About Authoritarianism

Unity in faith is theocracy unity in politics is fascism.

It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

South Carolina wanted to be certain that no misguided egalitarianism led to an excess of democracy. After all, that was partially what they were seceding from.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Trump does not picture his role as being a leader; he sees his role as going on national television and criticizing the leadership of others.

Superheroes] aren't fascists. They are just ordinary, decent, super-powerful people who inhabit a world in which fascism is the only political possibility.

Being forced to pretend to work just for the sake of working is an indignity, since the demand is perceived—rightly—as the pure exercise of power for its own sake.

Still, Lincoln went on to insist, what made the United States different from Europe, indeed what made its democracy possible, was

Papal timidity becomes ever more blatantly despicable.

The left's authoritarian impulse goes hand in hand with its dogmatic ideology. Leftists are so certain their philosophy is the sole correct moral viewpoint that no other views are accorded the slightest respect. With this outlook, it doesn't take much to rationalize the use of force to foist their beliefs on the entire country.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.