“If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes… — Anne Applebaum 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
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same?… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This… — Jeffrey Shallit 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
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself. — Albert Camus 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
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like.… — Alex Jones 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
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
“On the 'Celestial Seasonings' green tea packet there is a short explanation of its benefits: 'Green tea is a natural source of… — Slavoj Zizek 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
The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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