Quotes about Authoritarianism
In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners
— Ayn Rand
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
— Os Guinness
I was taught, growing up, that there are two ends of the political spectrum: left and right. But there's so much more than that. For me, it's about liberty versus authoritarianism.
— Kane
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
— John Calvin
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
— George Bernard Shaw
We've been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But
— Randy Alcorn
No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.
— Billy Graham
I hate the Communist system but I love the men. I hate the sin but I love the sinner.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
— James Dobson
Legalism is alive and well in many of our churches.
— Neil Anderson
Anyone who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say so.
— Glenn Beck