"Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed……" — Josh Marshall

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• And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all… — Madeleine Albright
• The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions… — Paulo Freire
• A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population… — Friedrich Engels
• Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an… — Thomas Naylor
• Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one… — Unknown Author
• A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression… — Sebastian Haffner
• Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that… — Germaine Greer
• Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry… — Paulo Freire
• RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and… — Bertrand Russell
• Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development ,… — Simon Baron-Cohen
• I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never… — Mickey Rourke
• But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that… — George W. Bush

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