Authoritarian Quotes

127 Authoritarian quotes by 102 unique authors

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true… — Salman Rushdie
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty… — Salman Rushdie
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. — Paul Samuelson
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. — Susan Sontag
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian. — Greg Graffin
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. — Evgeny Morozov
Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens… — Evgeny Morozov
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described… — Evgeny Morozov
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways… — Evgeny Morozov
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor Adorno
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we… — Oscar Wilde
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one… — Albert Schweitzer
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties… — Ernst Junger
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process… — Jaron Lanier
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself… — John Stott
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. — Edward Abbey
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memoryâ€”and this is largely determined by the… — Daniel Kahneman
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist. — Glenn Greenwald
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have… — Daniel Kahneman

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