The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think… — Henry Giroux 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
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
“Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outside society and outside… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception… — Masha Gessen 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
“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
“Instead, either he wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
“Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.” — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to… — Ma Boyong Copy Share Image
I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
“Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy… — John Whitehead Copy Share Image
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But just take the jurists' side for a moment: why, in fact, should a trial be supposed to have two possible outcomes… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but… — Robert Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
