(16 quotes found)
“The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.”
David Tracy
“Chinese men feel their role is to be more authoritarian,”
Cindy Chu
“Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.”
Paul A. Samuelson
“The King clearly said he is going to continue his authoritarian rule. It shows there is not going to be any changes immediately.”
Mahesh Acharya
“The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.”
Vladimir Putin
“After one year of unsuccessful authoritarian rule, this is the best way to address the Maoist insurgency and to build a brighter future for Nepal's people.”
Sean McCormack
“Any authoritarian regime, having suppressed normal political conditions, will find itself in need of internal and external enemies, someone to blame for peoples' misfortunes.”
Yevgenia Albats
“Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.”
Joe Chung
“There's no question the '68 generation has achieved a lot .... But they have gone too far with their anti-authoritarian views, such as on the family or education. They have thrown out the baby with the bath water. We want to use state institutions, not constantly put them in question.”
Christian Wulff
“Vicente Fox has a truly titanic task upon his shoulders because dismantling an authoritarian apparatus that has had a grip on power for 71 years means reforming the state practically from head to foot.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
