Totalitarianism Quotes

And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of peopl...

Man’s innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed. Totalitarianism cannot reno...

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ...

Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn'...

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist ...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

I cannot, of course, prove that there is no supervising deity who invigilates my every momentand who...

the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not mer...

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since...

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into diffic...

Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity do...

Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no cont...

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of...

That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the...

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existen...

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did ...

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It...

The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is...

He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the im...

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set up a schizophrenic ...

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, ...

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a deci...

Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant sto...

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose....

There is, therefore, a temptation to return to an explanation which automatically discharges the vic...

The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satis...

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is esp...

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces tha...

Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.

For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...

every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already ...

THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in his...

A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that te...

Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among...

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but peo...

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way ...

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

I love my country, not my government.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction ...

What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for orde...

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally ...

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of free...

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,But I am no wolf by blood.

A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be...

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wa...

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totali...

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...

Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. I...

On the 'Celestial Seasonings' green tea packet there is a short explanation of its benefits: 'Green ...

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?" he said. "Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?""Absol—well, o...

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...