Authoritarian Quotes · Page 2

However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.

— Sonia Rykiel

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

— Hugh Hefner

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

— Michael Craig-Martin

“You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.”

— Amélie Nothomb

Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?

— Edward Snowden

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation…

— Ludwig von Mises

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many…

— Robert Shea

“if you didn’t get involved in anything controversial—politics, human rights, or anything to do with Chechnya—then you could get on with life…

— Bill Browder

Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities…

— Thomas Mallon

Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is…

— Rush Limbaugh

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can…

— Salman Rushdie

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has…

— Brewster Kahle

“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they…

— Michael Sata

Many of us were a little to early to assume that the most logical uses of the internet in authoritarian states would…

— Evgeny Morozov

I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Anne Applebaum

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

— Richard A. Falk

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can…

— Salman Rushdie

“authoritarian institutions, such as governments and churches, do not use language but jargon, repetitive phrases that are not supposed to have meaning…

— Norman Cantor

“I'm not sure exactly where I stand in this generational continuum. I'm rebellious, but not against tradition--I'm very respectful of tradition. I'm…

— Wafaa Bilal

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

— Jonathan Chait

Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.

— Svetlana Alexievich

My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure.

— Nigel Hawthorne

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

— Stephen Kinzer

“Morally authoritarian movements are attractive to ugly, miserable, talentless people.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.

— Vladimir Putin

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

— Joshua Wong

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

— Edward Snowden

“Research finds that authoritarian aggression is fueled by fear and encouraged by remarkable self-righteousness, which frees aggressive impulses.”

— John W. Dean

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

— Ma Ying-jeou

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything…

— Sander Levin

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

— Robert Anton Wilson