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Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Government History Superior Whatever Systems Only Democratic Proves Dictatorships Authoritarian Anything Shortcomings Forms Transient Mankind

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

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The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad. Chrystia Freeland

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. Ellen Willis

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I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform. Eskinder Nega

Government Spring Arab Arab Spring Similar Something Never Overthrow Reform Authoritarian Report Did Happen Regime Might Ethiopia Suggest

When an authoritarian regime starts taking down feeds and blocking websites just because we expose the truth... that's an attack on freedom of the press everywhere. When authoritarian regimes around the world start attacking journalists like that, we all have a problem. Jeff Zucker

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Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors. Joseph Stiglitz

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Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. Jurgen Habermas

Today Religion Disappointment Political Old Language More Fact Over New Authoritarian Offers May Nationalistic Regimes Convincing

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization. L. Ron Hubbard

Me Organization Definitely Clarify Very Authoritarian

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead. Malcolm Nance

Will Lead He Putin Authoritarian Regimes Creating Axis

You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc. Mohamed ElBaradei

Freedom Democracy You Rights People Dictatorship Military Changing System Has-Been Charge Outgoing Give New Practicing Been Chicken Bunch Authoritarian Task Get Egypt Which Regime Republic Etc Second Fox

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems. Pope Francis

Me Problems Way Never Making Making Decisions Been Led Quick Authoritarian Accused Being Decisions Manner Created Serious

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control. Stephen Kinzer

Power Leader Control Easily He Over Authoritarian Cannot Bodies Turns

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. Salman Rushdie

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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about. Ai Weiwei

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An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. Alexander Lukashenko

Me Style Rule Characteristic Admitted Always Authoritarian

When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history. Ari Melber

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed. Brewster Kahle

History People Long Demanding Libraries Records Long History Had Read Reader Dealing Led Up Authoritarian Being Organizations Rounded

After 'Homeland,' I was offered a lot of very authoritarian, square, angry boss types, but I wanted to do something different. Casting directors are surprised when they look at my CV and see all the work I've done, from Shakespeare to playing Nelson Mandela. David Harewood

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The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011. David Petraeus

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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system. Dora Russell

Democracy People Spring Young Action System Brought Only Democratic Practising Up Close Authoritarian Expected Young People Early

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