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Growing our economy, creating good jobs for people in a changing world, how we’re going to be holding off the rise of authoritarianism, defending our democracies, how we’re going to be continuing to step up on the fight against climate change …there’s so much that we can do together and so much greater impact that we have around the world when we do it together. – Justin Trudeau	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At least in blue and purple states, voters sent a strong message that they don't want to hear any more about transgender kids in sports or Big Lies about stolen elections; they want normalcy in their politics and they want to affirm respect for democracy, the culture wars worked in red states, some of which only got redder, but Republicans deeply underperformed with the same groups that united for Biden's victory in 2020: young voters, women, people of color, and independents. Inflation is temporary, but authoritarianism can last forever. – Christy Setzer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Women must vigilantly protect our rights and freedoms especially amid the rise of authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism in many countries across the globe, i fully support the push to decriminalize abortion under Philippine laws. – Senator Hontiveros	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Scholars of the rise and fall of democracies have identified the business sector as often one of the most important bulwarks against authoritarianism, but... the attitude inside too many C-suites today after seeing what happened to Disney is to keep their heads down and retreat from playing any role in the current battle for democracy. – Protect Democracy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The country is going through one of the most serious moments in our history, requiring us to build an alternative path despite any differences in order to overcome the incompetence and authoritarianism that govern us. – Da Silva	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The idea that Trump, Trumpism and anti-democratic authoritarianism are separate, or emanate from the Oval Office is the crisis, they're the same thing. And they've been alive and well in state legislatures, going back, certainly going back 40 years. – Daniel Squadron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's about Chinese authoritarianism trying to expand its own influence... Far beyond its borders, even into the Western hemisphere, they want to exercise their authoritarian rule and impose the authoritarian international order. – Joseph Wu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
( The Chinese and Russia) share two primary strategic interests, one is to take the American global leadership down a notch or two. The second is to make the world safe for authoritarianism. – Steve Tsang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I mean, look, he's calling Ukrainians neo-Nazis and drug dealers, and all this propaganda stuff we all know isn’t true. And I think deep down, a mass of his population, they know it's not true, it highlights for us, here in America, why Ukraine is on the front line … They are the geopolitical fault line right now between democracy and authoritarianism and a hallmark of authoritarianism is to control the narrative, control what people hear and see and then distort the truth. – Daniel Hoffman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Even so, Russia’s war in Ukraine offers Biden an opportunity, in Brinkley’s view, to convince Americans of the importance of a united transatlantic alliance and to emphasize that he brought allies together to stand against Putin’s assault, it’s a key moment to take the stage as the global leader who is going to halt authoritarianism by building up our armed forces. He somehow has to make people really feel like ‘the USA is back,’ that democracy is eternal. – White House	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law, this indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now, in an attempt to say, ‘Well, we're going to treat both political parties equally’ when we clearly have, in this moment, one political party that is passing anti-democratic policies, that is upholding people with authoritarianism ideas. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Those who want to wear face masks can do so, we are against authoritarianism. – Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring theme in the history of authoritarianism. – Frank Furedi	added by Normando 3 years ago
This year has seen a significant rise in digital authoritarianism in India... and Twitter has been made into a scapegoat to send a message to other companies. – Jit Singh	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Authoritarianism can not tolerate truth. If they continue to say that they want to pursue me for the rest of my life, I'm not really concerned about that. – Joseph Wu	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a terrible danger. We have one party at the national level that is not committed to accepting the outcome of legitimate elections, that's not something that you can tolerate in the long run ; that is a recipe for edging towards authoritarianism. So I think that it is a stark choice. – Michael Gerson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld've got a lot of Republican businessmen wondering : Am I going to latch onto this Trump movement because it's still low-tax and pro-energy ? on the other hand, there is a lot of other stuff that goes with the Trump movement : anti-trade, intensely anti-immigration and arguably a degree of authoritarianism that isn't in sync with the party. – Michael Cembalest	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is why political correctness, or Cultural Marxism,... lends itself so fashionably to easy labels. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted, Uncle Tom, white privilege, mainsplaining. All of these are slapped on people with politically incorrect opinions in an attempt to silence you. ... Hate speech is inextricably tied to political correctness, or Cultural Marxism, and that creates intellectual conformity -- or intellectual authoritarianism. And that’s where you start to see things like “safe spaces” or “trigger warnings” or speakers banned from campus, or people with unpopular opinions banned from social media. – Steven Crowder	added by Normando 4 years ago
The President of the United States and his allies in Congress are leading this country down a dark path, we can no longer go down a path of authoritarianism, of racism, of corruption. We are better than this, and Georgia is better than this. – Jon Ossoff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world. – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We can't retreat or the authoritarianism will worsen, this is not about me. This is for Hong Kong, my home city. – Nick Tsang	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure. – Leonard E. Read	added by Normando 5 years ago
More and more people are starting to believe that only strong-handed authority, anti-European and anti-liberal in spirit, with a tendency towards overt authoritarianism, is capable of stopping the wave of illegal migration, if people believe them, that only they can offer an effective solution to the migration crisis, they will also believe anything else they say. – Donald Tusk	Found on Reuters 6 years ago

Growing our economy, creating good jobs for people in a changing world, how we’re going to be holding off the rise of authoritarianism, defending our democracies, how we’re going to be continuing to step up on the fight against climate change …there’s so much that we can do together and so much greater impact that we have around the world when we do it together.

– Justin Trudeau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At least in blue and purple states, voters sent a strong message that they don't want to hear any more about transgender kids in sports or Big Lies about stolen elections; they want normalcy in their politics and they want to affirm respect for democracy, the culture wars worked in red states, some of which only got redder, but Republicans deeply underperformed with the same groups that united for Biden's victory in 2020: young voters, women, people of color, and independents. Inflation is temporary, but authoritarianism can last forever.

– Christy Setzer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Women must vigilantly protect our rights and freedoms especially amid the rise of authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism in many countries across the globe, i fully support the push to decriminalize abortion under Philippine laws.

– Senator Hontiveros

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Scholars of the rise and fall of democracies have identified the business sector as often one of the most important bulwarks against authoritarianism, but... the attitude inside too many C-suites today after seeing what happened to Disney is to keep their heads down and retreat from playing any role in the current battle for democracy.

– Protect Democracy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The country is going through one of the most serious moments in our history, requiring us to build an alternative path despite any differences in order to overcome the incompetence and authoritarianism that govern us.

– Da Silva

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The idea that Trump, Trumpism and anti-democratic authoritarianism are separate, or emanate from the Oval Office is the crisis, they're the same thing. And they've been alive and well in state legislatures, going back, certainly going back 40 years.

– Daniel Squadron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's about Chinese authoritarianism trying to expand its own influence... Far beyond its borders, even into the Western hemisphere, they want to exercise their authoritarian rule and impose the authoritarian international order.

– Joseph Wu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

( The Chinese and Russia) share two primary strategic interests, one is to take the American global leadership down a notch or two. The second is to make the world safe for authoritarianism.

– Steve Tsang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I mean, look, he's calling Ukrainians neo-Nazis and drug dealers, and all this propaganda stuff we all know isn’t true. And I think deep down, a mass of his population, they know it's not true, it highlights for us, here in America, why Ukraine is on the front line … They are the geopolitical fault line right now between democracy and authoritarianism and a hallmark of authoritarianism is to control the narrative, control what people hear and see and then distort the truth.

– Daniel Hoffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even so, Russia’s war in Ukraine offers Biden an opportunity, in Brinkley’s view, to convince Americans of the importance of a united transatlantic alliance and to emphasize that he brought allies together to stand against Putin’s assault, it’s a key moment to take the stage as the global leader who is going to halt authoritarianism by building up our armed forces. He somehow has to make people really feel like ‘the USA is back,’ that democracy is eternal.

– White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law, this indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now, in an attempt to say, ‘Well, we're going to treat both political parties equally’ when we clearly have, in this moment, one political party that is passing anti-democratic policies, that is upholding people with authoritarianism ideas.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Those who want to wear face masks can do so, we are against authoritarianism.

– Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring theme in the history of authoritarianism.

– Frank Furedi

added by Normando
3 years ago

This year has seen a significant rise in digital authoritarianism in India... and Twitter has been made into a scapegoat to send a message to other companies.

– Jit Singh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Authoritarianism can not tolerate truth. If they continue to say that they want to pursue me for the rest of my life, I'm not really concerned about that.

– Joseph Wu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is a terrible danger. We have one party at the national level that is not committed to accepting the outcome of legitimate elections, that's not something that you can tolerate in the long run ; that is a recipe for edging towards authoritarianism. So I think that it is a stark choice.

– Michael Gerson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld've got a lot of Republican businessmen wondering : Am I going to latch onto this Trump movement because it's still low-tax and pro-energy ? on the other hand, there is a lot of other stuff that goes with the Trump movement : anti-trade, intensely anti-immigration and arguably a degree of authoritarianism that isn't in sync with the party.

– Michael Cembalest

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is why political correctness, or Cultural Marxism,... lends itself so fashionably to easy labels. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted, Uncle Tom, white privilege, mainsplaining. All of these are slapped on people with politically incorrect opinions in an attempt to silence you. ... Hate speech is inextricably tied to political correctness, or Cultural Marxism, and that creates intellectual conformity -- or intellectual authoritarianism. And that’s where you start to see things like “safe spaces” or “trigger warnings” or speakers banned from campus, or people with unpopular opinions banned from social media.

– Steven Crowder

added by Normando
4 years ago

The President of the United States and his allies in Congress are leading this country down a dark path, we can no longer go down a path of authoritarianism, of racism, of corruption. We are better than this, and Georgia is better than this.

– Jon Ossoff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world.

– Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We can't retreat or the authoritarianism will worsen, this is not about me. This is for Hong Kong, my home city.

– Nick Tsang

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.

– Leonard E. Read

added by Normando
5 years ago

More and more people are starting to believe that only strong-handed authority, anti-European and anti-liberal in spirit, with a tendency towards overt authoritarianism, is capable of stopping the wave of illegal migration, if people believe them, that only they can offer an effective solution to the migration crisis, they will also believe anything else they say.

– Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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