53 Totalitarian Quotes for You to Enjoy

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. Jerzy Kosinski

Nation Worse Punishment Must Totalitarian Withdrawal Than Capital

The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States. John Fleming

Submit Energy States Intimidation Extremist Totalitarian Threats Never Force Acceptable Fitting May Regime Agenda Use Companies United United States

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. John le Carre

Big State Totalitarian Totalitarian State Big Difference West Difference Working

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. John le Carre

States Totalitarian No-One West Accountable Impunity Happen Held

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. Judd Gregg

Change Despotic Totalitarian Invaded Been Iraq Regime Successful

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. Konrad Zuse

News State Virtually Totalitarian Totalitarian State True False

There are so many people that are offended by debate and free speech that sometimes governments cower. It's just way easier to play into the hands of people who are totalitarian. Lauren Southern

People Sometimes Debate Offended Free Free Speech Way Easier Totalitarian Governments Hands So Many People Just Who Many Play Speech

The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism. Maajid Nawaz

To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture. Malcolm Nance

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To speak of the Muslim world is not to endorse a totalitarian project, nor to bolster an Islamist narrative, nor to suggest that variety, plurality, and diversity are lacking in what Muslims think, believe, speak, and do as Muslims. Mehdi Hasan

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Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime. Mel Martinez

Needs Focus Our Totalitarian Castro Support Freeing Cuba Within Continuing His Opposition Rewarding Movement Regime Strengthening

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. Michael Johns

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. Norman Thomas

Fellow conservatives, particularly within the Republican Party, typically do a good job arguing against totalitarian, one-size-fits-all approaches to policy. What works for a family in New York City might not work in Jenison, Michigan, or Tulsa, Oklahoma. Richard Grenell

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Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.' Robert Zubrin

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Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. Rupert Murdoch

Technology Telecommunications Everywhere Threat Totalitarian Advances Proved Regimes

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism. Russell Smith

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There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. Svetlana Alexievich

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Democracy is like a totalitarian. Ted Yoho

Democracy Totalitarian Like

When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights. Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation. Wendell Willkie

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. Tom Stoppard

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