There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the…

“But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing…

— Brand Blanshard

Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to…

— L. Neil Smith

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

— Mona Charen

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

— Carl Joachim Friedrich

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

“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared…

— Anne Applebaum

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good.…

— Leon Krier

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

We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would…

— Camille Paglia

“The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed—no matter if the…

— William Stevenson

“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom. Repression is…

— Masaji Ishikawa

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