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Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to…

— Bernard Levin

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a…

— Herbert Marcuse

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

— Shakti Gawain

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

“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 strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and…

— Steven Pinker

Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on…

— Jacques Ellul

The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The…

— Eboo Patel

What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of…

— Ludwig von Mises

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging…

— George Orwell

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

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