Totalitarian Quotes

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Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has… — Ravi Zacharias
In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip.… — Christopher Hitchens
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of… — Hannah Arendt
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These… — Noam Chomsky
Itâ€™s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? Theyâ€™re totalitarian institutions… — Noam Chomsky
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state. — John Dewey
In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.… — P.J. O'Rourke
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or… — Steven Pinker
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the… — Martin Jacques
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always… — Russell Smith
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control. — B.F. Skinner
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. — Abdolkarim Soroush
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting… — James Gleick
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening… — Mel Martinez
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. — Arthur Henderson
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime… — Hans Frank
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to… — Aleksandr Lebed
For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime. — Aleksandr Lebed
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the… — Christopher Alexander

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