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[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

I love my country, not my government.

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

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

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

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

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

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

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

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

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

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

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

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

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

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

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

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

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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

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

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

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

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

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

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

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

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.

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

In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

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

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