Faces Quote by Tim Wu

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

— Linus Torvalds

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

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

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

“every great leader must face his or her demons in order to overcome them.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

— John le Carre

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

— Gordon G. Chang

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