Authoritarian Quotes

127 quotes by 102 authors

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry… — Vicente del Bosque
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form… — Christiane Amanpour
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension… — Herbert Marcuse
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable. — Susan Sontag
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checkedâ€”not least by his own party, which set a continental… — Mark Gevisser
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. — Joe Chung
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. — John Dryden
For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to… — Steven Pinker
Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by… — Rachel Carson
We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications.… — Jeremy Rifkin
My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been… — Pope Francis
My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government. — Ron Paul
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that… — Bear Grylls
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. — Nick Lampson
Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule. — Rush Limbaugh
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian… — Rush Limbaugh
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes… — Eugenio Montale
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised… — Vladimir Putin

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