124 Quotes About Authoritarianism

One need only to admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based only on solicitude for public tranquillity.

Nominally, the currency of the Caspian Republic was the moneta, but in truth the coin of the nation was fear. Whoever could inspire fear was rich, whoever lived in fear was poor.

The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny.

Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of persuasion rather than coercion, ideas rather than force, mutuality rather than authoritarian control.

Closed systems that thrive on control that is managed with sticks and carrots can't help but fail the people they claim to protect.

to Vaneigem and the Situationists who by shrewd use of collage and juxtaposition exposed both the poverty and richness of slogans, and the thinly veiled hypocrisy of a "spectacular" society which by not respecting words abuses people, and by insulting the intelligence creates a state of political cretinisation in which the many and various forms of authoritarian control dominate.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

Remember: the hair that sticks out gets lopped off.

Die vermeintliche Aufgeklärtheit von Menschen, die bekunden, allein »der Wissenschaft« zu vertrauen, ist oft kaum mehr als eine moderne Form von Autoritätsgläubigkeit.