A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on…

“What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground…

— Tom Robbins

“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense…

— George Orwell

“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”

— Philip K. Dick

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or…

— Ai Weiwei

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled…

— Henry Giroux

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development.…

— Ai Weiwei

In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible…

— Ai Weiwei

If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you…

— Whitfield Diffie

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means…

— Ayn Rand

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers…

— James Gleick

“A steady recognition that the evils which prevent the fullness of moral development are precisely the elements which are also the source of the…

— Michael Polanyi

Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders… At the very bottom of command, if…

— Noam Chomsky

“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

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

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