Quotes about Authoritarianism
Disunion by force is treason.
— Andrew Jackson
Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.
— Ronald Reagan
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
— Parker Palmer
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
— James Dobson
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
— John Calvin
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
— Woodrow Wilson
I hate the Communist system but I love the men. I hate the sin but I love the sinner.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Silence! said the ruffian. To the devil with your clamour!
— Emily Bronte
We've been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But
— Randy Alcorn
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
— William Howard Taft