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“We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.”

Source: A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan

“For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.”

People Thinking Reason Left Dues Labels Justification Compelled Totalitarianism Examining

Book:The Impact of Science On Society

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire.”

Asks Party Existence Subjects Citizens Politician Elements Majors Democratic Debate Conversion Latter Empires Crucial Surprising Conquest Totalitarianism Taboo Inverted American Empire

Author:Chalmers Johnson

“Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.”

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.”

Doe States Leader Democracy Expression Constitution Corporate Internals Cherish Totalitarianism Anonymity Charismatic Levers Inverted

Book:Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

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

Way Important Issues Civilization Tyranny Controversy Totalitarianism Important Issues

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.”

Humans Has Beens Dangerous Internet Civilization Tools Threat Transformed Totalitarianism Emancipation Human Civilization

Author:Julian Assange

“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”

Want States Left Atheism Atheist Stubborn Totalitarianism Advancing

Author:Rocco Buttiglione

“The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.”

Successful Century Revolution Rebellious Totalitarianism

Author:Bernard-Henri Levy

“If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.”

Ifs Men States Eye Law Divine Absolutes Barriers Logical Totalitarianism Above The Law Divine Law

Book:By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today

Source: By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today

“Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.”

Humans Interest Type Aim Enormous Variety Motive Categories Spells Units Totalitarianism Reduction Simplification

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This is the kind of attitude that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. It is to be decried, particularly in a university environment where the search for truth necessitates that no belief be treated as sacred or above scrutiny.”

Way Want Kind Seems Belief Attitude Environment Criticism Sacred University Treated Totalitarianism Scrutiny Immunity Search For Truth

Author:Jeffrey Shallit

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

States Education Liberty Taxes Models Historical Educational Libertarian Libertarianism Totalitarianism Education System Schooled Educational System Compulsory Schools And Education Totalitarian State Compulsory Education Totalitarian Government

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“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.”

Ifs Littles Different Stuff Bits Happened Little Bit Scary Corporate Nationalism Scar Totalitarianism Flavour Scary Stuff

Author:Lance Henriksen

“In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.”

World Way Faces Girl Challenges Moral Century Slavery Around The World Our Time 20th Century Totalitarianism 19th Century

Author:Sheryl WuDunn

“Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.”

Heart Real Today Form Religious Modern Consequence Threat Islam Paris Tragic Totalitarianism Medieval Mutation Weaponry

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity”

Mean Ends Individual Nations Higher Capitalism Features Entity Free Market Totalitarianism Road To Serfdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”

Mean War States Reason Political Modern Citizens Defined Civil War Exception Categories Establishment Adversaries Totalitarianism Integrated Political Systems Elimination

Book:State of Exception

Source: State of Exception

“Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .”

Government Policy Institutions Complexes Inflation Arbitrary Totalitarianism Complement Cogs

Book:The Theory of Money and Credit

Source: The Theory of Money and Credit

“Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.”

Century Movement Edges Jew Communist 20th Century Totalitarianism

Author:Barbara Amiel

“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.”

Cases Land Flight Totalitarianism Misconception Constrain

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.”

“If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.”

Ifs Country America Politics Greatness Speech Presses China Russia Protest Illegal Freedom Of Speech Totalitarianism Assembly Freedom Of The Press Greatness Of America Freedom Of Assembly

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.”

States Politics Objects Worship Socialism Totalitarianism

Author:Winston Churchill

“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.”

“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.”

Art Literature Sports Environment Capitalism Labor Unions Liberating Totalitarianism Labor Union

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.”

Deals Suspects Admiration Efficiency Totalitarianism Loathing

Book:The Idea of a Christian Society

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society

“I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.”

Doe Totalitarianism Martyrdom

Author:Vaclav Havel

“East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.”

Humor Funny Humorous East Germany Totalitarianism Banned Compulsory East Germany

Book:Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“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.”

Ifs Years Easy Realizing Loses Communist Nazi Totalitarianism Your Freedom

Author:Milos Forman

“To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.”

War Democracy Cold Arrogance Cold War Totalitarianism Democracies Have

Author:Alexander Haig

“Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.”

Century Totalitarianism Feudalism

Author:Barbara Amiel

“In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.”

Culture Indifference Realms Contradictory Totalitarianism Coexist Pluralism

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

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