Authoritarian Quote by Marie Yovanovitch

Mr. Giuliani's liabilities as a G.O.P. candidate were obvious. There was his well-documented history of cultural liberalism - on abortion, gay rights, immigration and…

— Steve Kornacki

“Alex is basically the most irresponsible man I have ever met. He uses his powers to inflame paranoia. He boldly makes stuff up to…

— Jon Ronson

“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we cannot agree…

— Salman Rushdie

“A real politician, and these were real politicians, never betrays his country to an outsider. He betrays it to himself. He is the enemy…

— Guy Endore

“Anyone who stood up to the lies spreading over pro-Duterte and pro-Marcos disinformation networks was gaslit, or told they were crazy. What the bad…

— Maria Ressa

“we have been forced to watch, powerless, the rebels' brilliant tactic of helping our voters to move all their useless junk back into their…

— José Saramago

“Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be…

— George Orwell

“In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people…

— Michael Wolff

“Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us. It’s more often a boring,…

— Tim Kreider

“You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your leaders, your…

— James Drought

“When we no longer have the courage to live by the truth ourselves, when we no longer really hunger for it, then we no…

— Charles J. Chaput

“When people start believing that all politicians are liars and crooks, the truly corrupt escape scrutiny, and cynicism grows.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton