“What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Man’s innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed. Totalitarianism cannot renounce violence. If it does, it perishes. Eternal, ceaseless… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no control, and since I have but… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism,… — Ronald Reagan 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
“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
“Loth as one is to agree with CP Snow about almost anything, there are two cultures; and this is rather a problem.… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“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
“Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“One might say that romance with revolution died with Solzhenitsyn. The line from Bastille to the gulag is not straight, but the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“But just take the jurists' side for a moment: why, in fact, should a trial be supposed to have two possible outcomes… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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