Authoritarian Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That…

— Ai Weiwei

“To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.”

— Francis August Schaeffer

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s.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

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

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

— Yasheng Huang

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

— Mahathir Mohamad

President Hindenburg had ultimate say over whether the government would survive or not.

— Erik Larson

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

— Clinton Rossiter

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

— Paul Craig Roberts

If Theresa May is big enough to admit her mistakes and put a kinder Conservatism into the heart of her government, she may survive,…

— Anna Soubry

No government could survive without champagne. In the throat of our diplomatic people [it] is like oil in the wheels of an engine.

— Joseph Dargent

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

— Rebecca MacKinnon