Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism. — Catherine Camus 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
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
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 make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.” — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I would say that today the real support for State power and totalitarianism comes from the Communist parties and the Socialist parties… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it - and believe me, I am very familiar with the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how… — Bertrand De Jouvenel 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
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
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
“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
“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
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
“What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — 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
“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
“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
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first,… — Robert A. Nisbet 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
I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.” — George Orwell 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
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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