Quotes About Authoritarian

Once you break your identification with the system, with the authoritarian technics that are driving planetary murder, your language and your actions become very different. Once you identify with the real, living planet, everything changes.

Grotesquely, there are cheerleaders for the king of Bhutan because of his claim that he seeks to increase gross national happiness, when Bhutan is one of the poorest and one of the more authoritarian countries in the world.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.

Some of the same rhetoric used by the law-and-order crowd has been used by authoritarian states over and over again.

Simultaneous love for authority and the hatred against those who are powerless are typical of the authoritarian character

Edward is 'going the dictator way, and is pro-German,

The state does not belong in bedrooms. So I'm not authoritarian. I don't say: 'You shouldn't do this, you must do that.' What I do say is that the state must have a preferred model, and the model that has served us throughout the millennia is marriage - a man and a woman in a union that is generally open to procreation.

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.

Liberals saw political order as issuing from individual liberty; conservatives saw individual liberty as issuing from political order. What makes a political order legitimate, in the conservative view, is not the free choices that create it, but the free choices that it creates.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

What the deuce does the fellow mean by getting trap-doors made without first consulting you? Trap-doors!

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I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

Whereas corporate leaders once spoke about the power of their platforms to help citizens topple governments, today they meet in secret with authoritarian leaders to create backroom deals that stifle citizen expression.63

I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision.

I'm fed up with the top-down style of politics, where discussion in our party is stifled because of sectarianism and tribalism.

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

They may alternate between an extremely dependent posture on one hand, and an authoritarian stance when they are in the parental mode.

Perhaps the true legacy of his boyhood was an equivocal one: he came to detest the tyranny embodied by the planters and their authoritarian rule, while also fearing the potential uprisings of the disaffected slaves. The twin specters of despotism and anarchy were to haunt him for the rest of his life.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.