Kim Jong Un, like all totalitarian leaders, wants above all to ensure his survival. He is convinced that a nuclear strike capability… — Tom Malinowski 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
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
Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I’m a nonviolent guy, but the next time some brainwashed Duracell trapped in the Matrix tells you that by curtailing our liberties… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in… — Daniel Lubetzky 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
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. — John le Carre 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
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when… — Aleksandr Lebed Copy Share Image
Every time I talk to somebody about Putin, it's like, 'But isn't he vastly popular?' Is that really the most important question?… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Black identity since the '60s has been a totalitarian identity. It's enforced. And if you don't subscribe to the party line, then… — Shelby Steele 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
Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. — Rupert Murdoch 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