Quotes About Authoritarian Regimes

#1. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public's mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Evgeny Morozov

#3. You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#4. In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

John Shattuck

#5. Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#6. The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

Wadah Khanfar

#7. Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.

Anonymous

#8. Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe.

Vint Cerf

#9. Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Paul Samuelson

#10. For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#11. 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

#12. There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Eugenio Montale

#13. One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Salman Rushdie

#14. It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

Michael East

#15. Give me all of you for one night, no holding back. Please, Chloe, I'll leave you alone after that but I haven't seen you in almost two weeks and ... I just need tonight.

Christina Lauren

#16. No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#17. Thoughts have creative energy exhilaration is required to creates dissolves and recreates.

Kishore Bansal

#18. Sound is the vocabulary of nature ... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary ... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

Pierre Schaeffer

#19. Resilience is an important key.
Protect the key to your peaceful heart.

Angelica Hopes

#20. I'm not just the young girl everybody thinks I am. I'm actually a woman.

Ashley Tisdale

#21. It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that.

Mustafa Akyol

#22. The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Paul Ricoeur

#23. A leopard can't change its spots and a dog can't change its temperament and a planet can't change its position in the universe.' - ppg 9

Annabel Pitcher

#24. The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

Alvaro De Vasconcelos