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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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
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The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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“… 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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