Freedom Quote by Joshua Wong

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian…

— Joshua Wong

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

— Anne Applebaum

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

“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state...The most vindictive resentment may be expected from the pedagogic profession for…

— Isabel Paterson

“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The fate of…

— Vasily Grossman

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both…

— P. D. James

If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears…

— Albert Einstein

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

— Paul Feyerabend

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

— Tim Wu

In a totalitarian state like North Korea, a group of neighbors gathering once a week to watch the latest episode of a forbidden soap…

— Tom Malinowski

I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a totalitarian state,…

— Liu Xiaobo

“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the…

— Joost Meerloo

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

— Philip D. Reed