We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism. — Sonny Bono Copy Share Image
“… the understanding of the reasons for the totalitarian flight from freedom is a premise for any action which aims at the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the… — Ronald Reagan 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
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
“Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow… — Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. If only it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
