That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
We know China is working across the U.N. system to drive an authoritarian agenda that stands in opposition to the founding values… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin has to create foreign enemies, and he also has to justify... he has to claim... he can't acknowledge that there's… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
“if you didn’t get involved in anything controversial—politics, human rights, or anything to do with Chechnya—then you could get on with life… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
We live in very volatile times. And it is super necessary that all of us resist this move toward the militarization and… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
“authoritarian regimes currently experiencing some growth are likely to reach the limits of extractive growth before they transform their political institutions in… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“The more routine that systematised activities are, the more nearly they are of the monotonous character seen in the habits of social… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
“the American nation today is infantile so much as adolescent—that is ambivalent in its twin desire for both authoritarian structure and the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The events of January 6 fit into a broader authoritarian movement across the world, which is attempting to undermine and weaken western democracies. — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exception is going… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral… — Marie Yovanovitch Copy Share Image
Dr. [ Peter R.] Breggin's book can show you how to take your child back from the authoritarian state that wants to… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Throughout history, people with few educational or economic resources and little bargaining power have often looked to authoritarian, ruthless people to stand… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I’m a nonviolent guy, but the next time some brainwashed Duracell trapped in the Matrix tells you that by curtailing our liberties… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image