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
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“It is itself totalitarian to dismiss peacefully-expressed views on the grounds that some unhinged mind might interpret them violently.” — Ed West Copy Share Image
Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should… — Vaclav Havel 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
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society… — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation?… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In fact, after living in Communist China for so many years, I realized that one of the advantages enjoyed by a democratic… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders… At the very bottom of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Kim Jong Un, like all totalitarian leaders, wants above all to ensure his survival. He is convinced that a nuclear strike capability… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression… — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It… — Vladimir Sorokin 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
Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries… — Bill O'Reilly 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
“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
