Free society Quote by James Guillaume

“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

“Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a…

— Timothy Snyder

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.”

— Jeri Massi

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

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

“It’s only in a democracy where people are the problem … because they have some power, and people with power always get into trouble?”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“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

“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.”

— Newton Lee

“Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.”

— Marie Vieux-Chauvet

“You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems.”

— Amélie Nothomb