Totalitarianism Quotes

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. — Hannah Arendt
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of… — Robert H. Jackson
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the… — Jacques Ellul
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. — Sidney Hook
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether… — Mahatma Gandhi
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and… — Richard M. Nixon
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of… — Richard M. Nixon
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright
And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. — George Orwell
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I… — George Orwell
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of… — George W. Bush
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan
For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same… — Bertrand Russell
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It… — Chris Hedges
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death — Robert M. Hutchins
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a… — Julian Assange

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