Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. — Karl Brandt Copy Share Image
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. — Judd Gregg 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
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. — Norman Mailer 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
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
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
“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
“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
The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“We didn't need a place to hide until the Internet came. And when it came, it gave us the badlands. It enabled… — Max Hernández Copy Share Image
Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between… — Earl Warren 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
“According to the Juche “philosophy,” “human beings are the masters of the world, so they get to decide everything.” It suggested we… — Masaji Ishikawa 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
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Some countries are ruled by humans, but some are ruled by animals! Totalitarian one-man regimes, where opponents are arrested for fabricated reasons,… — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
“Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.” — David Benedictus Copy Share Image
There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. — Konrad Zuse 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
“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains. — Bernard-Henri Levy 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
“The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed—no matter… — William Stevenson Copy Share Image
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image