Becoming Quote by Edward Snowden

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

— Rob James-Collier

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room…

— Red Smith

Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the…

— Robert Sapolsky

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being…

— Ivan Krastev

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian government the…

— David Frum

Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in like a…

— Joy Reid

We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.

— Vladimir Putin

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

— Dennis Prager

Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.

— Ross Douthat

When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

— Elif Safak

“However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is…

— Gloria Steinem