Totalitarian Quotes

168 Totalitarian quotes by 130 unique authors

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
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent… — Ai Weiwei
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by… — Conrad Black
Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal,… — Mark Helprin
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech. — Os Guinness
When christendom became a totalitarian superpower, the doctrine of peace and love by acceptance of Jesus Christ as savior was taxed by the dollar. — Jeremy Limn
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by… — Michael Johns
Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula… — Jim Morrison
The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to… — Eugene Ionesco

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