Totalitarianism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Totalitarianism.
Top Quotes
“Rule of law”
“Imperialism”
“Anti-fascism”
“Main stream news”
“Authoritarianism”
“Military Industrial complex”
“Nineteen Eighty-Four”
“Totalitarianism is an affair of mass attitudes.”
“Our formula is this: everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
“Wikipedia: Totalitarianism”
“"Totalitarianism" at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy”
“There isn’t any difference in totalitarian states. I don’t care what you call them, Nazi, Communist or Fascist…”
“The Savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.”
“Nationalism leads to totalitarianism, and totalitarianism leads to idolatry. It becomes not a principle of politics but a new religion and, let me add, a false religion.”
“Strangely, it is always America that is described as degenerate and 'fascist', while it is solely in Europe that actual dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up.”
“The totalitarian states, whether of the fascist or the communist persuasion, are more than superficially alike as dictatorships, in the suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies. They are profoundly alike.”
“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
“It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.”
“Somebody once declared that the only two political theories that are completely consistent are anarchy and totalitarianism. Anarchy fully embraces the concept of self, totalitarianism fully rejects that concept. Statism always degenerates into totalitarianism.”
“We take for granted the need to escape the self. Yet the self can also be a refuge. In totalitarian countries the great hunger is for private life. Absorption in the minutiae of an individual existence is the only refuge from the apocalyptic madhouse staged by maniacal saviors of humanity.”