I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“Totalitarian are the claims of Christ. No vestige of reservation of 'our' rights can remain.” — Thomas R. Kelly Copy Share Image
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state. — Philip D. Reed Copy Share Image
We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
“The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“Some countries are ruled by humans, but some are ruled by animals! Totalitarian one-man regimes, where opponents are arrested for fabricated reasons,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture,… — hakim bey Copy Share Image
Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“According to the Juche “philosophy,” “human beings are the masters of the world, so they get to decide everything.” It suggested we… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state...The most vindictive resentment may be expected from the pedagogic… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines,… — Antonin Kratochvil Copy Share Image
“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and… — Louis Jolyon West Copy Share Image
“Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
There is only one Islam, and that is a totalitarian ideology that has no room for anything but Islam. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade. — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
