Top 346 Totalitarian Quotes & Sayings

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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

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

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.

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

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

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

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

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

Islam is according to me, my party, not so much a religion as well as it is a totalitarian ideology.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

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

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

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

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

Democracy is like a totalitarian.

Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state on the ruins of a totalitarian regime. And so we end up with a mafia state and a totalitarian society.

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.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

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

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

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

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

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

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

Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.

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

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

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

Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

I think the Americans have it right. The idea of having guns is essentially to protect yourself from a totalitarian government.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.