One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of…

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled,

— Ron Paul

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

— Condoleezza Rice

Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the…

— Robert Sapolsky

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

— Van Jones

“Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn’t follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but neither was…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Conservatives without conscience do not have horns and tails; if they did they would be easier to identify. Many of them can be quite…

— John W. Dean

Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler…

— Van Jones

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

— George Orwell

The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type that is…

— Anne Applebaum

“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without…

— Timothy Snyder

I have never said authoritarians are pathological

— Bob Altemeyer

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically…

— Glenn Greenwald

The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by…

— Leonard Read

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

— Reza Aslan