Totalitarianism Quotes
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.
The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.
The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.
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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something g
Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.
States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
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.
Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.
You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.
Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.
A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.
Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.
If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.
The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.
The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.
That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’s a totalitarian nightmare.
Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.
Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to become ever more repressive.