We can see after 200+ years that the American model…

Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.

— William Poundstone

Our inability to govern ourselves at home, to deal with everything from infrastructure to our debt to tax policy, is reducing the appeal of…

— Richard N. Haass

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly…

— Edmund White

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting…

— Martin Jacques

The American model of leadership is critical in the world, and when we aren't involved, the models that fill the vacuum are not always…

— Colin Allred

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

— Michael Portillo

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

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

“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

Kim Jong Un, like all totalitarian leaders, wants above all to ensure his survival. He is convinced that a nuclear strike capability is necessary…

— Tom Malinowski

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 politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

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

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

— Anne Applebaum

“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