Totalitarianism Quotes

69 Totalitarianism quotes by 57 unique authors

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different… — Lance Henriksen
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge… — Sheryl WuDunn
Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly… — Salman Rushdie
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical… — Giorgio Agamben
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward… — Ludwig von Mises
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara Amiel
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land… — Ai Weiwei
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the… — Rich Lowry
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. — Winston Churchill
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek… — Ziad K. Abdelnour
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts… — Eric Hoffer
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for… — Hannah Arendt
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P.J. O'Rourke
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious… — Milos Forman
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel
In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in… — Herbert Marcuse
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a… — David Cameron
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and… — Ronald Reagan
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or… — Mahatma Gandhi
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in… — Stephen Harper
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression… — Daisaku Ikeda

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