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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.


L. Ron Hubbard


#because #been #being #brought #correct

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.


Marcy Kaptur


#been #blackwell #curb #efforts #heavily

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.


Ai Weiwei


#authoritarian #be happy #because #china #countries

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.


Christopher Hitchens


#authoritarianism #bertold-brecht #islamism #nihilism #osama-bin-laden

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.


James Madison


#liberalism #liberty #tyranny #roman

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.


Kate Millett


#based #becoming #capital #capital punishment #country

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.


Dora Russell


#authoritarian #brought #close #democracy #democratic

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.


Chen Shui-bian


#been #century #democracy #glad #half

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.


Susan Sontag


#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.


H.L. Mencken


#freedom #change






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