As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when… — Aleksandr Lebed Copy Share Image
“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences… — Anthony de Jasay 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
“What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.” — James Fallows Copy Share Image
When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“What reason have we Americans to think that our own society will necessarily escape the world-wide drift toward the totalitarian organization of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In a totalitarian state like North Korea, a group of neighbors gathering once a week to watch the latest episode of a… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“I've seen the big lie technique -- say anything loud enough, often enough, and it'll sound like the truth. But I considered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’m a nonviolent guy, but the next time some brainwashed Duracell trapped in the Matrix tells you that by curtailing our liberties… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian… — Harry S. Truman 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
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died.… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A totalitarian system leaves behind it a minefield built into both the country's social structure and the individual psychology of its citizens.… — Anatoly Sobchak Copy Share Image
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“The weapon, which Kalashnikov emphasizes as a defensive tool and a shared monument to the population’s creative energy, was rather a marker… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
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