authoritarianism quotes

Big Brother is watching you.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.