Quotes about Authoritarianism
Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.
- Lawrence Wright
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
People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
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