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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism. — Pope John Paul II

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism. — Sonny Bono

States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear. — Raif Badawi

Something about how all this could or would lead to totalitarianism. Her stomach sank. — Dave Eggers

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. — Hannah Arendt

when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism. — Liu Cixin

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death — Robert M. Hutchins

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,
But I am no wolf by blood. — Osip Mandelstam

Everything not forbidden is compulsory — T.H. White

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state. — Adam Michnik

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. — Tom Robbins

People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know. — Lawrence Thornton

There is no question that a society that sets out to control its citizens' use of drugs sets out on the slippery path to totalitarianism. — Terence McKenna

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Totalitarianism begins with using the word "we" without every I's permission. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote. — George R R Martin

Like so many nice people who seek power, I wanted to force everyone else to be nice. It's called totalitarianism. — Maajid Nawaz

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all. — Paul Kane

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. — Christopher Hitchens

The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I — Marlon James

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The way to make the giving a free vote safe for a totalitarian capitalist regime is simple - make all political parties the same! — Dave Mearns

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson

Moscow was an enormous city, but there was nowhere to go in it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism. — Bernard-Henri Levy

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them. — George Orwell

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism. — A.E. Samaan

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. — T. S. Eliot

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. — Steve Allen

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. — George Orwell

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy. — A.E. Samaan

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. — Hannah Arendt

I wish to understand [Plato], but to treat him with as little reverence as if he were a contemporary English or American advocate of totalitarianism. — Bertrand Russell

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. — Hermann Hesse

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel

The basic cause of totalitarianism is two ideas: men's rejection of reason in favor of faith, and of self-interest in favor of self-sacrifice. If — Ayn Rand

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — George Orwell

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life. — A.E. Samaan

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism ... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can. — Jose Saramago

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. — A.E. Samaan

Unlike high tax rates, you can't repeal totalitarianism if it turns out to be a mistake. — Anonymous

The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey. — Christopher Hitchens

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. — Thomas Sowell

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig

Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism. — Margaret Cho

To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it. — Francis A. Schaeffer

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. — Edward Abbey

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing — Adolf Hitler

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan

And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. — George Orwell

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara Amiel

The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism. — A.E. Samaan

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. — Sidney Hook

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. — A.E. Samaan

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"?? — A.E. Samaan

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism. — Ahmed Chalabi

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other. — A.E. Samaan

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it. — Maajid Nawaz

Like Alexis de Tocqueville, they feared unfettered democracy and believed totalitarianism was the natural consequence of mass democracy run amok. They — Kim R. Holmes

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. — Frank Underhill

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. — Vladimir Putin

Law without reason is criminal. — Criss Jami

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself. — Albert Camus

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me. — Stanislaw Lem

And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. — George Orwell

America isn't that far from totalitarianism. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel