Totalitarian Quotes

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

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.

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.

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

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

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

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