The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those… — Darran Anderson 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
“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
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these… — Thomas Sowell 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
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“We see here that Plato recognizes only one ultimate standard, the interest of the state. Everything that furthers it is good and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“So what is the answer? How can you stand your ground when you are weak and sensitive to pain, when people you… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on… — Patrick Chappatte Copy Share Image
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