But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by…

“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the…

— Yaakov Malkin

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests…

— John F. Kennedy

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long…

— Bruce Sterling

“As it became impossible to believe in the morality of the Soviet Union, a shrinking contingent of true believers shifted their devotions, first to…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the…

— Ronald Reagan

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power,…

— Vaclav Havel

“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism."…

— George Cardinal Pell

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

— Catherine Camus

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

“Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another’s eyes, that the power which had…

— Vasily Grossman

“The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form…

— Noam Chomsky

“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently been reintroduced…

— B.H. Liddell Hart

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 mankind, better…

— Dean Koontz

“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

— P. J. O'Rourke