Every time I talk to somebody about Putin, it's like, 'But isn't he vastly popular?' Is that really the most important question?… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve… — Richard Salsman Copy Share Image
“It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It has happened that a species has tried to live in violation of the Law of Limited Competition. Or rather it has… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Power built on totalitarian principles cannot admit its mistakes. To admit a mistake is to show weakness, to back down. To lose.… — Maria Alyokhina Copy Share Image
No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“When ideology has become total through its possession of total power, and has changed from partial truth to totalitarian falsehood, historical thought… — Guy Debord 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
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and… — Mel Martinez 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
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
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich Copy Share Image
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” —Hannah Arendt I” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker 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 bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith 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
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
“In 1951, Air Scoop published a long list of organizations that the government had labeled totalitarian, Communist, or subversive, the clear message… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
