Sentence examples for authoritarian mentality from inspiring English sources

This is not to deny that Russia poses a potential threat to Europe, notably in terms of energy supplies, or that its political culture is prone to an arbitrary and authoritarian mentality.

This authoritarian mentality, as Dean sees it, celebrates obedience, intolerance, and government intrusion into citizens' choices and personal values.

It's generally been assumed that the authoritarian mentality is learned, and crystallizes in early adulthood along with other political views.

A rushed and closed process perpetuates authoritarian mentalities (and, often, authoritarian rules as well).

"What I think is interesting is how much of the authoritarian state mentality people take when they leave the country," Kendzior tells me.

Second, the authoritarian, state-and-military-revering mentality pervading Williams' statement is striking.

Equating illegal behavior with ignominious behavior is the defining mentality of an authoritarian - and is particularly notable coming from what was once viewed as a bastion of liberal dissent.

Not Jomo Kenyatta's documented and demonstrable authoritarian ethnocentric post-independence fiefdom or Mwai Kibaki's bunker mentality that set the stage for the violence of 2007/8.

The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality.

Too authoritarian?

But authoritarian?