Cases Quote by Ai Weiwei

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

“… the understanding of the reasons for the totalitarian flight from freedom is a premise for any action which aims at the victory over…

— Erich Fromm

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Democracy is like a totalitarian.

— Ted Yoho

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and…

— Steven Pinker

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not…

— Christopher Hitchens

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

— Bernard Crick

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

“Man’s innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed. Totalitarianism cannot renounce violence. If it does, it perishes. Eternal, ceaseless violence, overt…

— Vasily Grossman

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the…

— Giorgio Agamben