Authoritarian Rise Quotes

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see them come to this absolutely incredible climax, and this fruition with the election of The Donald, it was just too much.

The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.