Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
“Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.” — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
“Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But just take the jurists' side for a moment: why, in fact, should a trial be supposed to have two possible outcomes… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but… — Robert Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Loth as one is to agree with CP Snow about almost anything, there are two cultures; and this is rather a problem.… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“It is not coincidence that, as Raymond Money puts it, “from the pyramids of Egypt, the rebuilding of Rome after Nero’s fire,… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Opinion is not aggression and political correctness is totalitarianism masquerading as liberty” — U.V. Ray Copy Share Image
I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
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