--- title: "9 Totalitarian Society Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 9 Totalitarian Society quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Totalitarian Society sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/philip-k-dick-502_community_things-happen-fast-during-the-time-of-tr_2152533.jpg" --- > [“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/things-happen-fast-during-the-time-of-transition-in-a-totalitarian/) [Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/philip-k-dick-502_community_things-happen-fast-during-the-time-of-tr_2152533.jpg) > [If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitfield-diffie/if-you-say-to-people-that-they-as-a-matter-of-fact-can-t-protect/) [Whitfield Diffie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitfield-diffie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e54/whitfield-diffie-17059_communication_if-you-say-to-people-that-they-as-a-matt_2233316.png) > [In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ai-weiwei/in-a-society-that-restricts-individual-freedoms-and-violates-human/) [Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ai-weiwei/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/110/ai-weiwei-824_creative_in-a-society-that-restricts-individual-f_135284.jpg) > [The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ai-weiwei/the-chinese-art-world-does-not-exist-in-a-society-that-restricts/) [Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ai-weiwei/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/ai-weiwei-824_anything_the-chinese-art-world-does-not-exist-in_1688890.jpg) > [A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-polanyi/a-free-society-is-regarded-as-one-that-does-not-engage-on-principle/) [Michael Polanyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-polanyi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/michael-polanyi-17316_attempting_a-free-society-is-regarded-as-one-that-d_1958962.jpg) > [“What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/what-i-m-saying-is-simply-that-every-totalitarian-society-no-matter/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aea/tom-robbins-169_human-spirit_what-i-m-saying-is-simply-that-every-tot_2597646.jpg) > [In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-giroux/in-any-totalitarian-society-dissent-is-viewed-as-a-threat-civic/) [Henry Giroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-giroux/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/henry-giroux-945_citizens_in-any-totalitarian-society-dissent-is-v_603408.png) > [“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-totalitarian-society-which-succeeded-in-perpetuating-itself-would/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e90/george-orwell-57_day-life_a-totalitarian-society-which-succeeded-i_2549971.jpg) > [The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ai-weiwei/the-deadly-weapon-against-totalitarian-society-is-openness-doing/) [Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ai-weiwei/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f0/ai-weiwei-824_civil-society_the-deadly-weapon-against-totalitarian-s_560420.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/totalitarian-society/#itemlist", "name": "Totalitarian Society Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip K. 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