“It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.” WarStatesLastsFightingThreePoliticsClassPositionIgnoranceRevolutionVictoryMajorsThirdsPoliceStrategySocialismGuaranteesPerpetualChaptersWarfareEmergenciesMaintenanceAuthoritarianismCultivatingThought PolicePerpetual War Author:George Orwell
“For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.” PurposeArtistFightingLiteratureCorruptionAuthoritarianismUtilitarian Author:Ama Ata Aidoo
“We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.” BelieveHeartStatesFormImagineCynicalUtopiaAuthoritarianismUtopianAuthoritarian Government Author:Lionel Trilling
“My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.” PeopleThinkingWantPoliticsTheoryCitizensFellowsConservativeLibertarianObsessionManageReformArrogantAuthoritarianismCredo Author:John Ray