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
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another’s eyes, that the power… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and… — Louis Jolyon West Copy Share Image
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
“In truth, the epoch is gone in which we had the impression that the masses of society could be guided by reason… — William S. Schlamm Copy Share Image
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