Quotes of: Totalitarianism Keyword

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

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

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see His purpose in it all. Maybe his children are being persecuted by the world in order that they might withdraw themsel...

Characters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

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

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Vladimir Putin

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

Barbara Amiel

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

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

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

John le Carre

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

Rocco Buttiglione

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set up a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politic...

Books v. Cigarettes

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Norman Mailer

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

Pope John Paul II

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Hannah Arendt

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Tom Robbins

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