Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.” — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” — Hannah Arendt 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
We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism. — Sonny Bono Copy Share Image
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths… — Herbert Marcuse 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
“At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient… — 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
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not… — Francis George Copy Share Image
“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no control, and since I have but… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t… — Timothy Snyder 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
“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it… — 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
“Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders… — Tom Robbins 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
“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Opinion is not aggression and political correctness is totalitarianism masquerading as liberty." - The Migrant” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.” — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“The naked public square cannot remain naked, the direction is toward the state-as-church, toward totalitarianism.”6” — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Opinion is not aggression and political correctness is totalitarianism masquerading as liberty." u.v.ray, The Migrant.” — U.V. Ray Copy Share Image
“when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
