Totalitarian's Quotes

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. — Michael Pollan

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them. — Sue Townsend

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state. — Philip D. Reed

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope
an ideology of hate
excuse me
with an ideology of hope. — George W. Bush

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech. — Os Guinness

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. — Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control. — B.F. Skinner

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

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. — Antonio Tabucchi

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. — Hannah Arendt

In Iraq, order, even of totalitarian dimensions, turned out to be more humane than the lack of order that followed. — Robert D. Kaplan

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. — Ayn Rand

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp

There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. — Dan Simmons

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries. — David Benedictus

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change. — John Gimlette

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler

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

To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity. The — Hannah Arendt

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in. — Adam Rapp

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. — Milan Kundera

Top-down management is plan-based, hierarchical, and totalitarian. Bottom-up management is humane, consensual, and egalitarian. Effective — Philip Wik

We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse. — Wendy McElroy

I love talking about Kennedy assassination ... a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government ... sorry, wrong meeting. — Bill Hicks

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains. — Bernard-Henri Levy

The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is not dangerous. — George Orwell

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost. — A.E. Samaan

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. — Jerzy Kosinski

Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying. — Dennis Prager

Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian. — Jostein Gaarder

The Left is totalitarian in its nature — Dennis Prager

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. — Noam Chomsky

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

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress. — Robert Payne

In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth. — Robert Conquest

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

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. — Eric Hoffer

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime. — Aleksandr Lebed

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky

These people don't see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. — George Orwell

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

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. — John Le Carre

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

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother. — James M. Fallows

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

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. — Konrad Zuse

if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. Make — George Orwell

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. — Andrew Vachss

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. — Abdolkarim Soroush

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

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

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian. — Norman Mailer

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. — Norman Mailer

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

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. — Louis O. Kelso

The rule of clerics is totalitarian. It means people can't choose. Humanity is varied, and we should celebrate that instead of suppressing it. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. — P. J. O'Rourke

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. — Andrey Illarionov

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined. — John Ringo

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

We have to stop pretending that Islam is a religion. Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to conquer the West. — Edward Cline

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

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional. — A.E. Samaan

Using the market to gradually fix a totalitarian government is like making a pot of tea by running a volcano through a glacier. — Clay Shirky

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

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

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. — Karl Brandt

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals. — B.W. Powe

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand. — Paul Feyerabend

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

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. — Vaclav Havel

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian ... — Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. — Anthony Burgess

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. — Rupert Murdoch

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. — Harry S. Truman

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. — Judd Gregg