“If it does not concern you that the very first act of virtually every totalitarian regime over the last hundred years has… — Nick Adams Copy Share Image
“i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture,… — hakim bey Copy Share Image
The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of… — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
“There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
“The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed—no matter… — William Stevenson Copy Share Image
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines,… — Antonin Kratochvil Copy Share Image
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve… — Richard Salsman Copy Share Image
Every time I talk to somebody about Putin, it's like, 'But isn't he vastly popular?' Is that really the most important question?… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: “Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams,… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“When one of the relativist theories is made the basis of a totalitarian state, man is stirred to free himself from the… — Heinrich A. Rommen Copy Share Image
All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“James: And I take back what I said about you being totalitarian. Lucy: It's about time. That term doesn't really suit me.… — Kristen Tracy Copy Share Image
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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