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Quotes About Totalitarianism

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world?
~ Unknown
First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world? How did we end up in an asylum?
~ Unknown
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.
~ Adolf Hitler
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
~ Boris Yeltsin
The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
~ Martin Heidegger
The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.
~ Adolf Hitler
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.
~ George Orwell, 1984
If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
~ Edgar Bergen
The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I
~ Marlon James
Then the white man talk about how some people trying to use smooth talk to win people over and how totalitarianism always happens with consent and we nod like we understand.
~ Marlon James
Ast?zi armele sunt diluate într-un aer È™i o mâncare care otr?vesc. Puterea nu mai are nevoie de puÈ™ti, de lag?re È™i de sârm? ghimpata, nici de tancuri, totalitarismul este diluat în atmosfera È™i în materia gândirii noastre
~ Unknown
The Nazis understand everything except humour.
~ Unknown
of Plato's Republic and Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, which she did own in her root
~ Matt Haig
Stalin's policies had driven millions more to starvation and even cannibalism.
~ Max Hastings
Soviet conduct could be deemed less barbaric than that of the Nazis only because it embraced no single enormity to match the Holocaust.
~ Max Hastings
The twentieth century possessed a clear-cut purpose—the unquestioned victory of democracy—the accomplishment of which resulted in a gift to the world. The century's greatest heroes reflect the triumph of a democratic way of life over totalitarianism.
~ Unknown
The fact is that the Communists are the forerunners of fascism," she wrote in 1933. "Neither Mussolini nor Hitler have made a single original step. All they had to do is follow and copy faithfully the steps taken by Lenin and Stalin.
~ Unknown
Close your eyes & imagine a world full of self-replicating little Stalins. Now open your eyes. You live in that world. It's called social justice & the little Stalins are SJWs. SJW = Stalin, Just Weirder.
~ Unknown
When you have to murder people by the tens of millions to achieve your utopian dream, you have succeeded only in producing a dystopian nightmare.
~ Michael Shermer
according to Sorokin. More recent and disturbing examples might include the Nazi interlude in Germany, the communist regimes in Russia and China, and the Islamic revival in Iran.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In the end, the "model" that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be reflected on by all who seriously aspire to progress for the benefit of the human race.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
~ Milos Forman