Committed Quote by Ludwig von Mises

“Man’s innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed. Totalitarianism cannot renounce violence. If it does, it perishes. Eternal, ceaseless violence, overt…

— Vasily Grossman

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

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those…

— Robert A. Nisbet

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

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of…

— Jean Francois Revel

If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free…

— Marshall Field

Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long…

— Suzanne La Follette

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

— Alan Moore

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most…

— Friedrich August von Hayek