Authoritarian Quotes

127 quotes by 105 authors

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they… — Madeleine Albright
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are… — Paulo Freire
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the… — Friedrich Engels
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central… — Thomas Naylor
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of… — Tom L. Johnson
A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these… — Sebastian Haffner
Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have… — Germaine Greer
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively… — Paulo Freire
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are… — Bertrand Russell
Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents… — Simon Baron-Cohen
I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the… — Mickey Rourke
But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to… — George W. Bush
I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly… — George W. Bush
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them.… — David Emerald Womeldorff
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political… — Jurgen Habermas
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it… — Archibald MacLeish
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are… — Gloria Steinem
Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like… — Aung San Suu Kyi
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian… — Richard Heinberg

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