Totalitarian Quotes

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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some… — Wendell Willkie
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but… — Ayn Rand
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system… — Vandana Shiva
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry… — Walter Brueggemann
North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody whoâ€™s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the… — Barbara Demick
Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial rÃ¨gime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian... — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you… — Noam Chomsky
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to… — George Orwell
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human… — Ann Druyan
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of… — Gerry Spence
The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. — Norman Mailer
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem… — Konrad Zuse
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. — Judd Gregg
I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become… — Robert H. Jackson
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. — P.J. O'Rourke
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of… — Norman Thomas
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control… — Bertrand Russell
If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take… — Whitfield Diffie

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