Becoming Quote by Noam Chomsky

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

— Noam Chomsky

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change…

— Noam Chomsky

“We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule, or rule of aristocracy, or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to…

— William S. Burroughs

“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is…

— Will Durant

“Economic institutions that create incentives for economic progress may simultaneously redistribute income and power in such a way that a predatory dictator and others…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such…

— Joseph Stalin

As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their legislatures, courts,…

— Tom Malinowski

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

— Chris Christie

“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented life of…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Moreover, the bureaucracy will be of the noblest and most virtuous sort, with no personal, political, or ideological agenda, motivated solely and completely by…

— Mark R. Levin

“Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.”

— Tom Clancy