Totalitarian Quotes
168 quotes by 132 authors
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice…
— Benazir Bhutto
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the…
— George H. W. Bush
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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
— John le Carre
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
— Noam Chomsky
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
— Noam Chomsky
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The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.…
— Jacob Bronowski
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I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not enable them to…
— William Bill
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.…
— E. O. Wilson
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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 glaringly…
— Albert Einstein
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In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of…
— Jimmy Carter
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Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
— Ayn Rand
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique…
— Milton Friedman
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of…
— John Maynard Keynes
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What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their…
— Walter E. Williams
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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
— Noam Chomsky
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which…
— Harry S. Truman
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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 him…
— George Orwell
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— Heinrich Himmler
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