Totalitarian Quotes

168 Totalitarian quotes by 130 unique authors

If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law –… — Lee Kuan Yew
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on… — Mark Slouka
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp
There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so as to bring… — Milton William Cooper
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations,… — Adam Zagajewski
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime:… — C.J. Sansom
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology… — Joseph Sobran
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a… — Adrian Smith
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson
We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. — Norman Mailer
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
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. — Judd Gregg

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