Totalitarian Quotes

168 quotes by 130 authors

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was… — Salman Rushdie
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned… — Mark Skousen
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. — Andrew Vachss
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. — Hannah Arendt
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you… — Sylvia Plath
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without… — Ron Paul
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic… — Herbert Marcuse
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of… — Aldous Huxley
Todayâ€™s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by… — Eric Schlosser
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was… — Janet Fitch
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your… — Azar Nafisi
How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds â€” and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man… — Elie Wiesel
The fundamental basis of this nationâ€™s laws was given to Moses on the Mountâ€¦If we donâ€™t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally… — Harry S. Truman
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The… — Ludwig von Mises
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual,… — Azar Nafisi
While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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