Quotes About Totalitarianism

Dans 1984, le système est déjà bien mis en place, la dictature absolue fonctionne sans accrocs et pénètre jusque dans l'esprit des individus, le chef est devenu une entité abstraite et lointaine qui n'est plus présente que par ses icônes, la dictature s'exerce par le biais d'une police omniprésente qui passe son temps à récrire l'histoire et à traquer les moindres miettes de pensée libre.

O Partido busca o poder exclusivamente por amor ao poder. O poder consiste em desagregar a mente humana para a reconstituir sob uma forma nova, sob a forma que entendermos dar-lhe.

How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished?

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

Did nobody see where we were heading? Did nobody see through the shameless demagogy of the articles of Goebbels? I could see it even through the thick walls of the prison; yet more and more people outside were toeing the line.

Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler.

As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)

The full extent of Nazi persecution was evidence, as he saw it, that there would never be any meaningful accommodation between Nazism and Parliamentary democracy.

The Maoists are not the only ones who seek to depose the Indian State. It's already been deposed, several times, by Hindu fundamentalism and economic totalitarianism.

The basic cause of totalitarianism is two ideas: men's rejection of reason in favor of faith, and of self-interest in favor of self-sacrifice. If

El lector del conjunto de esta obra descubrirá más fácilmente por sí mismo los lazos fortísimos que además le unen al sistema comunista mundial, y a su jefe de filas soviético. Muchos fenómenos que han llamado nuestra atención (la «página en blanco», esa nostalgia del reinicio absoluto, de la tabla rasa; el culto y la manipulación de la juventud) pueden encontrarse fácilmente bajo otros cielos.

Zeev Sternhell has conclusively demonstrated that nearly all the ideas found in fascism and nazism first appeared in France.

Lenin did not create the political doctrines of fascism, but his Communist totalitarianism based on systematic mass violence initiated most of the new practices and institutions of fascist-type regimes.

ideologically fascist and progressive totalitarianism was never a mere doctrine of statism. Rather, it claimed that the state was the natural brain of the organic body politic.

What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion that it was both possible and desirable to rid the world of anyone whom the regime deemed to be unworthy of life.

the Enlightenment, no one was prepared to see totalitarianism as a product of Western civilization and a paroxysmic expression of its own contradictions. Only a few were able to grasp Hannah Arendt's most fertile intuitions. The genetic relationship that linked Nazism to imperialism and nineteenth-century colonialism remains still today a historical workshop largely unexplored.

Fascism is not an article for export.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Fascism is a religious concept.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing agaisnt the state

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.