#authoritarian

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

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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

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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

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TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE ↗

— George Orwell

#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Joe Chung

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