Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Whoever we were—and it was not really important what religion we belonged to, whether we wished to wear the veil or not,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
“You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This… — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Looking into the mirror I ask myself: "You live in a house equipped with air conditioning. You eat tasty food. You utilize… — Marinella Venanzi Copy Share Image
For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow… — Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first,… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like.… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
“… the understanding of the reasons for the totalitarian flight from freedom is a premise for any action which aims at the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Perverted self-love, when it became political, created individualism, or historical liberalism; perverted love of others, when it became political, created totalitarianism.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on… — Patrick Chappatte Copy Share Image
“What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of… — Mahatma Gandhi 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'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Group dynamics and the decision to sacrifice the individual for the group are the first steps in a march down the road… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past,… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
I would say that today the real support for State power and totalitarianism comes from the Communist parties and the Socialist parties… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
“Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another’s eyes, that the power… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
![“[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.” quote by Friedrich August von Hayek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e34/friedrich-august-von-hayek-141_building_socialistic-economic-planning-regulation_162331.jpg)
![“[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This is the kind of attitude that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. It is to be decried, particularly in a university environment where the search for truth necessitates that…” quote by Jeffrey Shallit](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d98/jeffrey-shallit-84814_attitude_he-seems-to-want-it-both-ways-the-freedo_3009026.jpg)
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![“If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of…” quote by Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/419/hannah-arendt-610_conditions_if-this-practice-of-totalitarianism-is-c_799785.jpg)
![“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system of economic totalitarianism treats the industrious and the idle, the able and the stupid, as if they were alike--which is contrary to the laws of justice. . . . American society is…” quote by Russell Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6df/russell-kirk-6909_american-society_t-he-just-society-is-one-in-which-each-m_1855898.jpg)
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