A Quote by Carl Joachim Friedrich

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

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Carl Joachim Friedrich
American - Scientist
June 5, 1901 - September 19, 1984

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

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

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

Robert H. Jackson

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

John Ringo

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

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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.

Michael Johns

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

Harry S. Truman

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

Sue Townsend

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

Svetlana Alexievich

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

Eventually, understanding the motivations of the terrorists and dealing with the injustices that pervade our society, and repairing the institutions of justice, particularly the police and the judiciary, will be a much more effective way of fighting terror, than laws which give more draconian powers to corrupt and insensitive police organisations.

Prashant Bhushan

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

Mona Charen

It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.

Peter Bergen

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