Totalitarian Quotes

168 Totalitarian quotes by 130 unique authors

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides,… — Leon Krier
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for… — Ai Weiwei
If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay.… — Chris Martin
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled… — Ron Paul
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are… — John F. Kennedy
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse… — Charles Krauthammer
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. — Vaclav Havel
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn… — Eric Hoffer
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have… — Aldous Huxley
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. — Rupert Murdoch
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the… — Vladimir Nabokov
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much… — Bill O'Reilly
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the… — Steven Pinker
Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no… — Dennis Prager
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human… — Mitt Romney
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

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