A Quote by Sue Townsend

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

Sue Townsend

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Sue Townsend
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April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.

Masha Gessen

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

Svetlana Alexievich

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

John Ringo

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

Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.

Daniel Lubetzky

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

Salman Rushdie

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

Randall Robinson

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Harry S. Truman

Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make people hate someone. And this hatred is all around the Russian politics.

Ksenia Sobchak

The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

G. Edward Griffin

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

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Rupert Murdoch

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

Mario Vargas Llosa

If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died. The Soviet Union broke up along ethnic lines, as we always thought it would. The Chinese - am I wrong? - are becoming a commercial civilization.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

Mona Charen

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