My view of Trump is that, while he has done some extremely noxious things, in general his worst feature, his most authoritarian… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I've had people say, "You know, this 'Hope and Change' business, Rush, it's just as dangerous as, 'Make America Great Again,' all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When the newly formed middle class in China begins to perceive its interests and discovers the value of the rule of law,… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
“Societies progress by the free assertion of differing proposals, followed by criticism, followed by the genuine possibility of change in the light… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
The thing that I've found is there's more to it than just presenting them with good options. You need to step in… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen,… — Aung San Copy Share Image
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“This addition produces a two-by-two matrix: parenting is authoritative (high demand, high responsiveness), authoritarian (high demand, low responsiveness), permissive (low demand, high… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Trump has picked the more extreme versions of all Republicans so far, the more aggressive. And I think the thing to watch… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The Conservative party, like many others, is constantly grappling with issues of community cohesion and how you can express your core values… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Western companies (and governments) have deeply integrated themselves with an authoritarian regime without thinking through the consequences, and when push comes to… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
“I’m a nonviolent guy, but the next time some brainwashed Duracell trapped in the Matrix tells you that by curtailing our liberties… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
To me, the problem with the president is that he takes very authoritarian actions in terms of attacking democratic institutions and then… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security,… — Doug LaMalfa Copy Share Image
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral… — Marie Yovanovitch Copy Share Image
Dr. [ Peter R.] Breggin's book can show you how to take your child back from the authoritarian state that wants to… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image