Fear Quote by Adolf Hitler

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and…

— Hannah Arendt

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell…

— George Orwell

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for…

— Masha Gessen

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when…

— Timothy D. Snyder

Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they…

— Christopher Hitchens

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

— Robert Payne

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

— Bernard Crick

Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on…

— Jacques Ellul

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match…

— Anthony de Jasay

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears…

— Albert Einstein