For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country…

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist…

— Elliott Abrams

“The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of European nation-states…

— Hannah Arendt

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us…

— Eric Hoffer

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.

— Michael Portillo

“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man is the…

— Masha Gessen

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for…

— Masha Gessen

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of…

— Barack Obama

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

— Jalal Talabani

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

— John Gimlette

“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.”

— Hannah Arendt

“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their…

— Hannah Arendt

Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the…

— Joost Meerloo

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom