#authoritarian

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

#clarify #definitely #me #organization #very

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

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#govern #obama #rule #want #wants

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

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

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

— Vladimir Putin

#deliberately #interpreted #our #strengthening #times

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #cultural #democratic #governments #human

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#balances #certain #checks #disturbing #government

Question authority... Then ignore it! ↗

— Joseph Barjack

#diy #inspirational #thinking #inspirational

One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.... Over the years, I’ve grown used to these arguments, and my response has rarely wavered: Sure, we might make dumb choices sometimes, but we will defend, to the end, the right to make choices at all, because we believe that our collective conscience, freely expressed, will eventually lead us in the right direction. When it comes to guns, it is getting harder to muster that argument abroad. Every new shooting, every new failure of will and citizenship, slashes another hole in our credibility as a way of life. ↗

— Evan Osnos

#authoritarianism #credibility #democracy #government #gun-policy

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked. ↗

— George Orwell

#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire