Century Quote by Barbara Amiel Download Open image “Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.” — Barbara Amiel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Feudalism Totalitarianism
“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 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 ideology and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population… — Aldous Huxley 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 nation, most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
