The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it. — Maajid Nawaz 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
“And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.” — George Orwell 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 I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“… the Nazis, without admitting it, learned as much from American gangster organizations as their propaganda, admittedly, learned from American business publicity.” — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails--this is due… — Christopher Stasheff Copy Share Image
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins 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
“You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was… — Mark Dunn 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
“Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow… — Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“It's not always a question of you changing your mind. I think very often your mind changes you. You suddenly realise that… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and… — Sam Shepard 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
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Whoever we were—and it was not really important what religion we belonged to, whether we wished to wear the veil or not,… — Azar Nafisi 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
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because… — Ronald Reagan 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 is the kind of attitude that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. It is to be decried, particularly in a university environment where the search for truth necessitates that…” quote by Jeffrey Shallit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d98/jeffrey-shallit-84814_attitude_he-seems-to-want-it-both-ways-the-freedo_3009026.jpg)
![“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system of economic totalitarianism treats the industrious and the idle, the able and the stupid, as if they were alike--which is contrary to the laws of justice. . . . American society is…” quote by Russell Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/russell-kirk-6909_american-society_t-he-just-society-is-one-in-which-each-m_1855898.jpg)
![“[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.” quote by Friedrich August von Hayek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/friedrich-august-von-hayek-141_building_socialistic-economic-planning-regulation_162331.jpg)
