Totalitarian Quotes

168 quotes by 130 authors

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because… — Arthur Caplan
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.… — George Orwell
Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the… — Michael Novak
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the… — Rich Lowry
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined. — John Ringo
The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good? — John F. Kennedy
All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible. — E L Doctorow
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with… — Norman Cousins
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for… — Hannah Arendt
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. — Antonio Tabucchi
After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian,… — Frank Gaffney
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature,… — Herbert Marcuse
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. — Jerzy Kosinski

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