Analogies Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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…

— Jacques Ellul

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and…

— Hannah Arendt

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light,…

— Albert Einstein

“Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about…

— Tom Robbins

And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name…

— Vaclav Klaus

“This is the pattern of American foreign policy: from isolationism to interventionism, from withdrawal to crusading and back again. As a self-proclaimed morally and…

— John Spanier

This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere…

— Doris Lessing

I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer…

— Richard A. Falk

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are…

— Erich Fromm

“Americans, in foreign policy, are torn to the point of schizophrenia. They are reluctant, than aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick on the…

— Robert Kagan

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely,…

— Joseph McCarthy