Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky 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
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds 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 Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. — Mark Skousen 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
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams,… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
In a totalitarian state like North Korea, a group of neighbors gathering once a week to watch the latest episode of a… — Tom Malinowski 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
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly… — Neal Knox Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to… — Jacob Bronowski 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
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler 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
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
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. — Jeane Kirkpatrick 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
“He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to… — Oliver Bullough 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