You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries…

In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour…

— Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

When the newly formed middle class in China begins to perceive its interests and discovers the value of the rule of law, the existing…

— Heinrich August Winkler

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system;…

— John Trudell

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in…

— Mahathir Mohamad

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find…

— Evgeny Morozov

“Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral values, shame,…

— Marie Yovanovitch

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

— Yasheng Huang

We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.

— Ted Lieu

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

— Susan Sontag

“Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you care about other people, that's now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to…

— Noam Chomsky

Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with…

— Richard A. Falk

We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime... setting standards in the world marketplace.

— John Ratcliffe

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep