Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society...… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land.… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
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
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
“We will enter into a new phase in which the Leviathan, so to speak, will become the body formed to make possible… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He turned over towards the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“It is not coincidence that, as Raymond Money puts it, “from the pyramids of Egypt, the rebuilding of Rome after Nero’s fire,… — Robert A. Caro 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
“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
“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people… — Slavoj Žižek 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
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
“At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and… — Pat Califia Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and… — Eric Hoffer 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
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
We have seen many instances where the free world didn't seem to understand the nature of evil or the battle against evil… — Sean Hannity 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
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
![“My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people…” quote by Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/461/vandana-shiva-2756_available_my-links-with-mahatma-gandhi-now-are-ver_1306949.jpg)
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