Country Quote by Adam Michnik

We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime... setting standards in the world marketplace.

— John Ratcliffe

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian government the…

— David Frum

Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in like a…

— Joy Reid

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being…

— Ivan Krastev

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

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

The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society - ours -…

— Edward Snowden

What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.

— Jair Bolsonaro

We do not believe in authoritarian rule.

— Joshua Wong

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

— Vladimir Putin

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and…

— Jordan Peterson