“What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.” — James Fallows Copy Share Image
When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“What reason have we Americans to think that our own society will necessarily escape the world-wide drift toward the totalitarian organization of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“The weapon, which Kalashnikov emphasizes as a defensive tool and a shared monument to the population’s creative energy, was rather a marker… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died.… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“A totalitarian system leaves behind it a minefield built into both the country's social structure and the individual psychology of its citizens.… — Anatoly Sobchak Copy Share Image
“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when… — Aleksandr Lebed Copy Share Image
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society… — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression… — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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