Bells Quote by Joost Meerloo

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with opinions about,…

— Hannah Arendt

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

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us…

— Eric Hoffer

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

— Robert Scheer

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

— John Gimlette

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point…

— Anthony Daniels

“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.”

— Hannah Arendt

“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their…

— Hannah Arendt

Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state…

— Masha Gessen