Quotes About Totalitarianism

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

My mom told me many times how I need to be careful living inside the regime. We didn't say 'the regime.' We didn't even say 'North Korea.'

A 97-percent win is the kind of result you get in a one-party regime.

The North Korean regime really can control people. I think they are the best dictator in the whole planet.

North Korea publicly denounced me as an enemy of my people and punished all my relatives. They have this guilty by association policy and they go after three generations of your family or up to eight generations of your family.

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Not only are the male students drawn to violence (at second hand), they are also quite totalitarian-minded, even for Americans, and I am convinced that any attractive television personality who wanted to become our dictator would have their full support.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.

The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group - otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.

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

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues.

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

20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

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