There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part…

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

— Rupert Murdoch

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

— Robert Scheer

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

“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

Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make people hate…

— Ksenia Sobchak

“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

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

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

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

— Sue Townsend