Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
“No voice is so loud that it can demand that I listen to it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Morally authoritarian movements are attractive to ugly, miserable, talentless people.” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time? — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Many people prefer to treat themselves as objects, and they are relieved by an opportunity to deliver themselves into the hands of… — Herbert Spiegel Copy Share Image
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
“Slackless organizations tend to be authoritarian. When efficiency is the principal goal, decision making can't be distributed. It has to be in… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The real and, to me, inexcusable danger in Dianetics lies in its conception of the amoral, detached, 100 per cent efficient mechanical… — Janet Reitman Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Right-Wing Authoritarian—Followers: • men and women • submissive to authority* • aggressive on behalf of authority* • conventional* • highly religious •… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Individualism may be the greatest boon to authoritarianism since the whip, and has helped prolong it well beyond its natural lifespan. Its… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
“The authoritarian system we live under is set to benefit a tiny minority — an all-powerful elite gets obscenely rich, while billions… — Alan Grant Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image