Totalitarian Quotes · Page 2

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

— Michael Pollan

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

— Geert Wilders

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

— Tim Wu

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

— Rupert Murdoch

“Totalitarian are the claims of Christ. No vestige of reservation of 'our' rights can remain.”

— Thomas R. Kelly

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

— Louis O. Kelso

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

— Aleksandr Lebed

We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

— Wendy McElroy

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

— Linus Torvalds

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

— Bernard Crick

“It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in…

— Anonymous

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control…

— Adam Smith

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the…

— Masha Gessen

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and…

— Mel Martinez

I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a…

— Liu Xiaobo

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been…

— Bruce Sterling

“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The…

— Vasily Grossman

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied…

— Tom Stoppard

“Some countries are ruled by humans, but some are ruled by animals! Totalitarian one-man regimes, where opponents are arrested for fabricated reasons,…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Power built on totalitarian principles cannot admit its mistakes. To admit a mistake is to show weakness, to back down. To lose.…

— Maria Alyokhina

“It has happened that a species has tried to live in violation of the Law of Limited Competition. Or rather it has…

— Daniel Quinn

History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the…

— Hannah Arendt

“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and…

— Louis Jolyon West

The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

— G. Edward Griffin

“In a post-totalitarian dictatorship, the grins of the people are the nightmares of the dictators.”

— Xiaobo Liu

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

— Sue Townsend

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

— Milan Kundera

“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.”

— Garry Kasparov

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

— John Ringo

“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”

— Philip K. Dick

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

“Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.”

— David Benedictus

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

— Ayn Rand