To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to…

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes…

— George Orwell

Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State.…

— Chris Hedges

If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in…

— Harry S. Truman

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

— John F. Kennedy

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death…

— Hannah Arendt

“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception made perhaps…

— Masha Gessen

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

— Vaclav Havel

“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically…

— Louis Jolyon West

“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

“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The fate of…

— Vasily Grossman

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian…

— Noam Chomsky

“For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs…

— Herbert Marcuse

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