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
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire 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
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. — Ayn Rand 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
“If it does not concern you that the very first act of virtually every totalitarian regime over the last hundred years has… — Nick Adams 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
We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of… — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
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… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of… — Hans Frank Copy Share Image
In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom.… — Masaji Ishikawa 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
“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
“Consciousness is expensive,” she said. “This is a problem for totalitarian states. A human being with interest in leisure, art, agency—a human… — Neil Clarke Copy Share Image
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of… — P. D. James 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
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian. — Jean-Luc Godard 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
“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism. — 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 aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — George Orwell 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
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“It is itself totalitarian to dismiss peacefully-expressed views on the grounds that some unhinged mind might interpret them violently.” — Ed West Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
