Quotes about Authoritarianism
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
— Henry A. Wallace
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
— Madeleine Albright
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Legalism is alive and well in many of our churches.
— Neil Anderson
I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations.
— Carl Sagan
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
— Harry S. Truman
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
— Os Guinness
In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners
— Ayn Rand
No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.
— Billy Graham
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
— James Dobson
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
— George Bernard Shaw