American Quote by Naomi Wolf

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

— Carlos Fuentes

“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with opinions about,…

— Hannah Arendt

A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But…

— Adam Michnik

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian government the…

— David Frum

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

“When fascists or Nazis or communists did well in elections in the 1930s or ’40s, what followed was some combination of spectacle, repression, and…

— Timothy Snyder

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the…

— Barbara Amiel

“Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in…

— Timothy Snyder

“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War,…

— Hisham Matar

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically,…

— Daniel Ortega

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

— Gianfranco Fini

“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared…

— Anne Applebaum