If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state. — Philip D. Reed Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
“In 1951, Air Scoop published a long list of organizations that the government had labeled totalitarian, Communist, or subversive, the clear message… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“When ideology has become total through its possession of total power, and has changed from partial truth to totalitarian falsehood, historical thought… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“According to the Juche “philosophy,” “human beings are the masters of the world, so they get to decide everything.” It suggested we… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be linked unto a system of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state...The most vindictive resentment may be expected from the pedagogic… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
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