Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Instead, either he wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Hitler and his party had won power through elections and coalition politics. Why did people think that a voting system was protection… — Souad Mekhennet Copy Share Image
In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As we know, the balance of the economy of the world, the proportion is crazy. People are probably looking for a balance.… — Pawel Althamer Copy Share Image
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“One might say that romance with revolution died with Solzhenitsyn. The line from Bastille to the gulag is not straight, but the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of… — Jean Sevillia Copy Share Image
“Arendt, as we have seen, is committed to understanding totalitarianism in its complete novelty, as an unprecedented phenomenon. It is unprecedented in… — Steve Buckler Copy Share Image
“So what is the answer? How can you stand your ground when you are weak and sensitive to pain, when people you… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image