Quotes of: Authoritarianism Keyword

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

Rebecca MacKinnon

Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has ben...

Conservatives Without Conscience

...the church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security. These structures produce the same kind of authoritarian people, with a super defensive stance in their st...

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Ivan Krastev

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Pope Francis

It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No do...

Mustafa Akyol

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's wo...

Salman Rushdie

If we as Christians do not speak out as authoritarian governments grow from within or come from outside, eventually we or our children will be the enemy of society and the state. No truly authoritarian government can tolerate those who have real abso...

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Vladimir Putin

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

Greg Graffin

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

John Sweeney

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

David Foster Wallace

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

Hillary Clinton

We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

Yulia Tymoshenko

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

Niall Ferguson

When this happens, as it is today, then, to quote Eric Hoffer, “When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.” At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end. The...

Francis A. Schaeffer

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

L. Ron Hubbard

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Joe Chung

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Stephen Kinzer

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

Ma Ying-jeou