Evolution Quote by Carl Joachim Friedrich

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

“When ideology has become total through its possession of total power, and has changed from partial truth to totalitarian falsehood, historical thought has been…

— Guy Debord

“Totalitarianism is the result of the hypostasis of the political and the correlative lowering of life as well as the individual. This term does…

— Michel Henry

“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared…

— Anne Applebaum

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

— Gene Sharp

History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they…

— Tariq Ramadan

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot…

— Robert H. Jackson

Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do…

— Daniel Lubetzky

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

— Adolf Hitler

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

— Aleksandr Lebed

“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man is the…

— Masha Gessen

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

— Harry S. Truman