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My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
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What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.
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For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable:…
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives…
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
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Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged…
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Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate…
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful…
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The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all…
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As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an…
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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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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…
— Hannah Arendt
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
— Noam Chomsky
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The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.
— Newt Gingrich
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Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct…
— Jacques Ellul
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In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.
— Sidney Hook
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again.
— George Orwell
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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic…
— George Orwell
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