Politics Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

“In the twentieth century, all the major enemies of freedom were hostile to non-governmental organizations, charities, and the like. Communists required all such groups…

— Timothy Snyder

“When we fall into the trap of ethnicization and collective responsibility, we collude with Nazi and Soviet propagandists in the abolition of political thought…

— Timothy Snyder

“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared…

— Anne Applebaum

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

— Hannah Arendt

“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free expression, and…

— Martin Luther King Jr

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that…

— Aldrich Ames

“I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms…

— Victor Kravchenko

“It’s depressing at times, but I try to keep a sense of perspective. Sweet F.A. will never be more than a bunch of thugs…

— Greg Egan

“I can’t remember the last time I had fun. Wait, yes I can. It was 1989, and I was wearing a t-shirt that said,…

— Jarod Kintz

“If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes [of Eastern…

— Anne Applebaum

“If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a…

— Lois McMaster Bujold