Totalitarian Quotes

168 Totalitarian quotes by 130 unique authors

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. — Michael Pollan
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. — Harry S. Truman
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society… — Akbar Ganji
The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual… — Charlie Daniels
If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not… — Jon Stewart
The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope -- an ideology of hate -- excuse me --with an… — George W. Bush
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be… — Camille Paglia
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction,… — Hannah Arendt
It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. — Konrad Zuse
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any… — Vaclav Havel
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and… — Vaclav Havel
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical… — Simone Weil
Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government. — Richard Salsman
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point… — Saul Alinsky
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement,… — Robert Bork
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
The Left is totalitarian in its nature — Dennis Prager
I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting. — Bill Hicks
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had… — Francis Schaeffer
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to… — Peter Thiel
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less… — Daniel Pipes
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. — Karl Brandt

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