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