Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a…

“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

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian…

— Michael Polanyi

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

“you can’t fart without changing the balance in the universe”

— Philip K. Dick

Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

— Neal Stephenson

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.

— Michael Portillo

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