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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
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
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 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
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
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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
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
— Jean Francois Revel
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
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
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
— Ronald Reagan
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
— Barbara Amiel
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.
— Sidney Hook
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
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
