Authoritarians Quote by Jahanshah Safari

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled,

— Ron Paul

The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by…

— Leonard Read

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically…

— Glenn Greenwald

I have never said authoritarians are pathological

— Bob Altemeyer

“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without…

— Timothy Snyder

The behavioral scientist Karen Stenner has written very eloquently about people who have what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a personality type that is…

— Anne Applebaum

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

— George Orwell

Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler…

— Van Jones

“Conservatives without conscience do not have horns and tails; if they did they would be easier to identify. Many of them can be quite…

— John W. Dean

“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn’t follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but neither was…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

— Van Jones