Authoritarians Quotes

#1. I have never said authoritarians are pathological

Bob Altemeyer

#2. Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.

Glenn Greenwald

#3. The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.

Leonard Read

#4. The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

George Orwell

#5. Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

Victor Davis Hanson

#6. History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

Ron Paul

#7. Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

Patricia Wentworth

#8. Watch the dog! His hands actually hesitated, and I think he realized for the first time that PC was there. The dog's presence seemed to stump him. What, he's never seen a dog in a purse before? That or he thought PC was some sort of hairless rat - that happened.

Kalayna Price

#9. Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
Fill all the Glasses there; for why
Should every Creature Drink but I?
Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Abraham Cowley

#10. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

Kevin Ashton

#11. Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.

Tom Rath

#12. Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

Jose Marti

#13. Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

Raimon Panikkar

#14. I'd already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality and, accepting it, made a whole lot easier.

Amy Poehler