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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
George H. W. Bush
Day
Freedom
Man
Heart
Refreshed
World
Old
Tree
Ancient
Totalitarian
Seems
Fact
Lifeless
Over
New
Like
Ideas
Era
Leaves
Passing
Dictator
Blowing
Blown
Blown Away
In Fact
Old Ideas
Breeze
Reborn
Away
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley
Truth
Great
Silence
Eloquent
Totalitarian
About
More
Point
Could
Point Of View
Simply
Most
Practical
Greater
Opinion
Still
Subjects
Effectively
Than
Influenced
Much
Certain
View
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
Adolf Hitler
Strength
Great
Fear
Imitate
State
Those
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Forces
Who
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Noam Chomsky
Democracy
State
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Propaganda
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Government
Equality
Met
Claim
Totalitarian
Only
Powers
Material
Position
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
Success
Failure
World
Build
Pay
Defeat
Society
State
Complete
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Totally
Civilized
Civilized Society
Civilized World
Higher
Price
Voluntary
Failing
Greater
Ultimate
Represents
Tax
While
Taxation
Planned
Level
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
Christopher Hitchens
Me
Enemy
Control
Inside
Totalitarian
Absolute
Head
Over
Just
Wants
Taxes
Your
Actions
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
J. G. Ballard
Future
Me
World
Tyranny
Rightly
Systems
Totalitarian
Huxley
Only
Marxism
New
Wrongly
Leap
Quantum
Quantum Leap
Contrast
Brave
Subservient
Brave New World
New World
Might
Convinced
Away
Orwell
Suggested
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.
Steven Pinker
Happiness
Life
Nature
Liberty
Totalitarianism
Argument
Human Nature
Recognition
Dream
Totalitarian
Strongest
Blank
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Blank Slate
Doctrine
May
Human
Against
Innate
Slate
Universal
Humans
Desires
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
Bill O'Reilly
Freedom
History
You
Will
Everything
Tell
Totalitarian
Pretty
Laws
More
Individual
Individual Freedom
Student
Countries
Pass
Governments
Ban
Any
Much
Less
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
Benazir Bhutto
Life
Justice
Liberty
States
Totalitarian
Compromises
Namely
Democratic
Principles
Dictatorships
Regimes
United
Foundation
United States
Basic
In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.
Ismail Kadare
Time
Natural
Enemy
Totalitarianism
Long
Long Time
State
Tyrannical
Way
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Horror
General
Adversary
Know
Firsthand
Governments
Same
Literature
View
Lived
The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Ronald Reagan
World
Enjoy
Worship
Totalitarian
Spirit
Because
Does
Human
Impulse
Create
Produces
Violence
A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.
Svetlana Alexievich
Power
Busy
Alive
Totalitarian
Mainly
Itself
Keeping
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
Noam Chomsky
Pure
Totalitarian
Concept
Idiotic
Very
Notion
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Nature
Religion
Will
Made
Ideology
Islam
Become
Totalitarian
Ideologies
Because
Any
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
Ai Weiwei
Art
Creative
Rights
World
Passion
Impossible
Human Rights
Society
Imagination
Independent
Pretence
Totalitarian
Individual
Freedoms
Calls
Does
Exist
Itself
Art World
Human
Anything
Chinese
Create
Violates
'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.
Alexis Bledel
Future
Time
Women
Book
Live
Society
States
Has-Been
Totalitarian
About
Part
Taken
Takes
Over
Tale
Period
Been
Subjugation
Handmaid
Place
Dystopian
Theocracy
Who
United
Based
Near
United States
Margaret
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Andrew Vachss
People
Protection
Hero
Journalist
Rule
Totalitarian
Admittedly
Journalism
Between
Sort
Any
Flawed
Why
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Arthur Henderson
War
Dictatorship
Nationalism
Gone
State
States
Some
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Absolute
Glorification
Cult
Militant
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable.
Augustus Sol Invictus
Freedom
Tyranny
Thought
Despicable
Type
Our
Paper
Totalitarian
Delicate
Most
Because
Sensibilities
Suburban
Imaginable
'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.
Elizabeth Banks
Few
Society
Hunger
Hunger Games
Totalitarian
About
Similar
More
Tale
Also
Very
Germany
Than
America
Gets
Where
Anywhere
China
Agenda
Games
Populace
Serving
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Freedom
Mind
State
Totalitarian
Only
Prevent
Demands
Becoming
The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.
G. Edward Griffin
World
Become
Totalitarian
Fed
Throughout
Support
Accomplice
Regimes
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.
Jan Koum
Freedom
Democracy
You
Freedom Of Speech
Country
Become
State
Kid
Kind
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Eavesdrop
Nobody
Come
Escaped
Where
Should
Right
Speech
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.
Jean-Luc Godard
Before
Others
Spielberg
Totalitarian
Something
He
Like
Very
Wants
Convince
Many
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