In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“When one of the relativist theories is made the basis of a totalitarian state, man is stirred to free himself from the… — Heinrich A. Rommen 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
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The U.S. media do not function in the manner of the propaganda system of a totalitarian state. Rather, they permit indeed encourage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
“The effort to transform natural inequalities into social equality could only lead to greater, more brutal inequality; the socialist effort to transform… — David Horowitz 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
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image