Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it…

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— John Ratcliffe

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

“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

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Susan Sontag

We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.

— Ted Lieu

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

— Yasheng Huang

“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

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

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

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

— Dennis Prager

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

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

— Hugh Hefner

The question is: Particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?

— Edward Snowden