Totalitarianism Quotes

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, Liberty, Mad

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
Thomas Sowell

Human, Face, Liberalism

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
Stephen Harper

Society, Human, Find

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah Arendt

Won, Propaganda, Momentum

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
Sam Shepard

Care, May, Democracy

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

Freedom, Easy, Lose

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
Daisaku Ikeda

Democracy, Through, Thought

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
Vladimir Putin

Power, Strong, State

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
Steve Allen

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen

Different, Won, Stuff

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Barbara Amiel

Sense, Word, Century

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.
Ahmed Chalabi

War, National, Liberation

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.
Rocco Buttiglione

Religion, State, Left

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