Authoritarian Rule Quotes

Everything within the State. Nothing outside the State. Nothing against the State.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

A democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

Socialists should be delighted to find at last a socialist (Mussolini) who speaks and thinks as responsible rulers do

No one has murdered more communists than the Communist Soviet Union under Stalin

… something with monarchical power in it would be most effectual for the settlement of the nation

The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demogogues.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

An unbridled democracy is exactly similar to a tyranny. Its objects and instruments are the worst, and both are equally served by the tamest of mankind. It is always to lord it as a sovereign; it therefore has its flatterers in the shape of demagogues. Ancient customs must be done away with; ancient ties, civil and sacred, must be broken; everything must be changed according to new and false theories; and the result is an assimilation of democratic to tyrannical government, in its habits and modes of action.

Either force or corruption has been the principle of every modern government.

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them. Life will descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism, and the world will be better for it.....

Some of the defendants say that dictatorship can be good if there is a good dictator. But I say that a man cannot stay good if he becomes a dictator. Authoritarianism is a system that destroys man's morality. If you take a saint and give him power, he will change into a Hitler or a devil.

Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.