Totalitarian Quotes
168 quotes by 130 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the…
— Barbara Demick
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Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
— Norman Mailer
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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
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We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
— Judd Gregg
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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
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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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
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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
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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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