Totalitarian Quotes · Page 2

“Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian.”

— Jostein Gaarder

We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

— Wendy McElroy

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

— Linus Torvalds

The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

— G. Edward Griffin

Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.

— Marine Le Pen

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

— Philip D. Reed

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

— Vaclav Havel

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

— Adolf Hitler

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

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

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic…

— Hannah Arendt

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are…

— Mark Helprin

“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

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and…

— E. L. Doctorow

“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

“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

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the…

— Hannah Arendt

“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“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

“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

“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police…

— Anne Applebaum

Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print…

— Rupert Murdoch

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

Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.…

— Joost Meerloo

“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he…

— Anonymous

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

— Geert Wilders

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

— George Orwell

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.

— Michael Portillo

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

— Rupert Murdoch

“Totalitarian are the claims of Christ. No vestige of reservation of 'our' rights can remain.”

— Thomas R. Kelly

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

— Tim Wu

“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.”

— A.E. Samaan

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

— Norman Mailer

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

— John le Carre

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

— Hannah Arendt

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

— Robert Scheer

Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.

— Geert Wilders