The thread of culture that runs through the entire history…

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history,…

— James Surowiecki

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

— Hugh Hefner

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and…

— Alexander Lukashenko

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

— Dennis Prager

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