#totalitarian

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. ↗

— Steve Allen

#patriotism #totalitarianism

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

— Judd Gregg

#change #despotic #invaded #iraq #regime

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. ↗

— Lance Henriksen

#corporate #different #flavour #had #happened

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

#certain #could #effectively #eloquent #great

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

— Isabel Paterson

#compulsory #educational #model #state #system

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#away #being #being responsible #care #democracy

Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#paradise #totalitarianism #utopia #age

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

— George Orwellll

#injustice #totalitarianism #imagination

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. ↗

— George Orwell

#totalitarianism

I think, therefore I am, dangerous. ↗

— D.A. Hanks

#totalitarianism