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We do not believe in authoritarian rule.
We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.
I'm actually a miserable, authoritarian guy at home... no really, I'm strict.
Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.
An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.
China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure.
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian ruling style is characteristic of me.
However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.
In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
I believe Donald Trump is a bona fide authoritarian. I am deeply concerned that if he were president of the United States, he would act accordingly.
I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.
It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.
What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian regime.
I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before it is too late.
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team.
You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.
America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.
America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.
In fact, despite the fact that he's somehow managed to brand himself as a moderate choice, Michael Bloomberg's record is actually that of an authoritarian nightmare.
The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
The principle of the Communist Party of Vietnam is collective leadership with accountability and responsibility of the individual, which can never become authoritarian.
Trump's hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what's to come if he is elected.