The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is…

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

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

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

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us…

— Eric Hoffer

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

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

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with opinions about,…

— Hannah Arendt

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic…

— Mitt Romney

“If it does not concern you that the very first act of virtually every totalitarian regime over the last hundred years has been to…

— Nick Adams

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

— Aleksandr Lebed

Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state…

— Masha Gessen

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

— Michael Portillo

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian…

— Hans Frank

“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.”

— Hannah Arendt