This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's…

Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country for migrants…

— Alan Bersin

"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes…

— Dan Gillmor

I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new vibrant, all-embracing state,…

— Navi Pillay

The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven't a…

— Charles Murray

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.

— Evgeny Morozov

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