Quotes About Totalitarianism

whole countries lived behind barbed wire, and governments insisted that down was up and black was white.

Strach z komunismu zplodil fašismus.

Speaking in town squares, beer halls, and circus tents, Hitler employed over and over again the same action verbs—smash, destroy, annihilate, kill. In a typical address, he would shout himself into a lather of arm-flailing, screaming fury at the nation's enemies, only to grow abruptly calm as he painted a word picture of what a new era of German ascendance might look like.

A whole generation has been born and come of age since the Communist bloc disintegrated. What does this mean? It means that we no longer judge established democracies by comparing them with the Soviet alternative; and that we don't evaluate emerging democracies by looking at their totalitarian predecessors. We have tossed the measuring-sticks we used in the past into the waste bin.

Asked by a reporter to summarize his program, Mussolini replied, "It is to break the bones of the democrats … and the sooner the better.

To secure the future, they turn schools into seminaries for true believers, striving to produce "new men" and "new women" who will obey without question or pause. And, as one of my students observed, "a Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.

Communists, like the Nazis, were manipulating the press, smearing political rivals, demanding total loyalty from their members, and threatening anyone who stood in their way.

Every age has its own Fascism. —PRIMO LEVI

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.

I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending—if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.

Family - see Fascist State.

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

One of the things about totalitarianism is that people disappear, and you can't find out what happened to them.

Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

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.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

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

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

Totalitarian propaganda can outrageously insult common sense only where common sense has lost its validity.

Marxism is not about free speech and debate, it is about domination, repression, indoctrination, conformity, and compliance. The

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.