Quotes of: Totalitarian-state Keyword

A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.

Patrick Chappatte

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Thomas Sowell

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

Judd Gregg

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

B. F. Skinner

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Ahmed Chalabi

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, ...

Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing w...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though u...

George Orwell

Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought, claiming that the actor was a victim of the "hysteria" created by revelations about Jimmy Savile. It's a curious ...

Joan Smith

If you wanted to bestow the grandiose title of "most successful organization in modern history," you would struggle to find a more obviously worthy nominee than the federal government of the United States. In its earliest stirrings, it established a ...

David Leonhardt

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Noam Chomsky

I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is always on the side of the governed." Whether it's a military society, a partially free society, or what we - not h...

Government in the Future

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Sue Townsend

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

David Benedictus

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

Jerzy Kosinski

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Abdolkarim Soroush

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

Barbara Amiel

The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a ‘liberal’ state is at war with a ‘totalitarian’ state, then the war is justified. The beneficent nature of a govern...

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

Vaclav Havel