It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism. — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“But I had begun to sense a truth inside myself: if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Opinion is not aggression and political correctness is totalitarianism masquerading as liberty." u.v.ray, The Migrant.” — U.V. Ray Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
“At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Man’s innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed. Totalitarianism cannot renounce violence. If it does, it perishes. Eternal, ceaseless… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. If only it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land.… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Scholars of totalitarianism talk about the importance of this constant movement, this forever war, this need to do battle on behalf of… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to… — Ma Boyong Copy Share Image
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