Scary Quote by Masha Gessen

“Gilead was, although undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content, like some sectors of the social fabric that gave rise to it. As…

— Margaret Atwood

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

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which,…

— Gerry Spence

I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very…

— Tim Wu

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

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

Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.

— John Dewey

“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

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

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

Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are…

— Neal Knox

Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those…

— Ordway Tead