Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime. — Aleksandr Lebed Copy Share Image
Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and… — Mel Martinez Copy Share Image
