Freedom Quote by Augustus Sol Invictus

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of…

— Jean Francois Revel

“The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed—no matter if the…

— William Stevenson

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most…

— Allan Bloom

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

— Edward Abbey

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled…

— Henry Giroux

“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it…

— Geoff Ryman

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten…

— James H. Billington

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

— John Locke

“What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and…

— Timothy Snyder

“Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.”

— Anonymous

“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."…

— William F. Buckley Jr

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill