Quote by Amélie Nothomb

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want,…

— Timothy Snyder

“Some of the most horrific dictators rose to power amidst chaos.” I”

— Donna Augustine

“How could one want an equalitarian and free society to issue from an authoritarian organisation? It is impossible.”

— James Guillaume

“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom. Repression is…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“In a post-totalitarian dictatorship, the grins of the people are the nightmares of the dictators.”

— Xiaobo Liu

“As in any country, there is usually only a handful of power-hungry people with brash, unpopular ideas.”

— Laura Enridge

“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.”

— Tao Te Ching

“A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have in it more genuine humanity.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”

— George W. Bush

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

— Gordon G. Chang