Book Quote by Herbert Spencer

Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“ Without the power to put them into practice, truths are of no use. They remain academic. Power, no matter what kind of power…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want,…

— Timothy Snyder

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“As Yale history professor Timothy Snyder writes in his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, “To abandon facts is to abandon…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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

— Gloria Steinem

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time…

— Leo Tolstoy

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

— Reza Aslan

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and…

— Jordan Peterson