Totalitarian Quotes

168 Totalitarian quotes by 130 unique authors

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
Today’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 — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man… — Elie Wiesel
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’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
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
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’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

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