Authoritarian Quote by Stephen Kinzer

The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to…

— Chrystia Freeland

There's this notion of women's bodies being out of control - so out of control that men don't understand it at all.

— Megan Abbott

In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the…

— Alexei Navalny

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch…

— Adrienne Rich

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in…

— Mahathir Mohamad

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find…

— Evgeny Morozov

“Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral values, shame,…

— Marie Yovanovitch

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

— Yasheng Huang

We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.

— Ted Lieu

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

— Susan Sontag

“Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you care about other people, that's now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to…

— Noam Chomsky