Becoming Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

— Adolf Hitler

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and…

— Ai Weiwei

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

— Robert Payne

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when…

— Timothy D. Snyder

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.…

— Ludwig von Mises

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

— Paul Feyerabend

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most…

— Allan Bloom

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from…

— Isaac Asimov

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

— Allan Bloom

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for…

— Masha Gessen

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell…

— George Orwell