Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It… — Vladimir Sorokin 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
Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“I’m a nonviolent guy, but the next time some brainwashed Duracell trapped in the Matrix tells you that by curtailing our liberties… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“I've seen the big lie technique -- say anything loud enough, often enough, and it'll sound like the truth. But I considered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
“It is itself totalitarian to dismiss peacefully-expressed views on the grounds that some unhinged mind might interpret them violently.” — Ed West Copy Share Image
Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“In fact, after living in Communist China for so many years, I realized that one of the advantages enjoyed by a democratic… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders… At the very bottom of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation?… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Kim Jong Un, like all totalitarian leaders, wants above all to ensure his survival. He is convinced that a nuclear strike capability… — Tom Malinowski 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
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In a totalitarian state like North Korea, a group of neighbors gathering once a week to watch the latest episode of a… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
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