Totalitarian Quotes

168 quotes by 132 authors

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us. — James H. Billington
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals… — Ordway Tead
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. — Andrey Illarionov
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from… — Eric Hoffer
Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are examples… — Neal Knox
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. — Michael Pollan
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. — Harry S. Truman
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society… — Akbar Ganji
The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual… — Charlie Daniels
If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not… — Jon Stewart
The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope -- an ideology of hate -- excuse me --with an… — George W. Bush
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be… — Camille Paglia
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction,… — Hannah Arendt
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. — Konrad Zuse
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any… — Vaclav Havel
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and… — Vaclav Havel
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical… — Simone Weil
Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a â€˜total government.â€™ In short, weâ€™ve got totalitarian government. — Richard Salsman
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point… — Saul Alinsky

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