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Authoritarianism Quotes

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them"

"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts"

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. "

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress"

"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes"

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled aw"

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile"

"Big Brother is watching you."

"Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the people they manipulate them"

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