Authoritarian Quote by David Emerald Womeldorff

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold…

— Richard Engel

People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies…

— Riane Eisler

“Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do…

— Paul Graham

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

— Barbara Tuchman

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

— Stanley Bing

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force,…

— Millicent Fenwick

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

— George Davis Herron

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to…

— Matthew Henry

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance…

— Robert D. McFadden

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

— Ian Somerhalder