One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Nigel Farage is on home turf on his soapbox. Like those who praise authoritarians, he is comfortable only when surrounded by his… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled, — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.” — Jahanshah Safari Copy Share Image
“Conservatives without conscience do not have horns and tails; if they did they would be easier to identify. Many of them can… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You… — Maria Ressa Copy Share Image
Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Our societies presently produce millions of highly authoritarian personalities as a matter of course, enough to state the Nuremberg Rallies over and… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“The authoritarians of today are also terror managers, and if anything they are rather more creative. Consider the current Russian regime, so… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn’t follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The truth is that regimes of corrupt, personalist rule - in which authoritarians wield the state to reward friends, punish enemies and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
