Advances in the technology of telecommunications have…

Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print media; direct-dial…

— Rupert Murdoch

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

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

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

— Robert Scheer

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

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

“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

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

“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

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